Submitted by Bill Thomson on Sun, 01/05/2016 - 19:12
If you have no need for the complete set of locales included in a Linux install,
here's one way to purge the ones you don't need and reclaim ~120MB of disk space.
The utility is called localepurge
Install it via the package manger, i.e sudo apt-get install localepurge
During installation it will ask you which locales you wish to retain
After installation, run it by issuing the command localepurge
When it finishes, it will display space freed in /usr/share/locale, /usr/share/man and the total.
localepurge -- reclaim ~120MB of disk space
Submitted by Bill Thomson on Sun, 01/05/2016 - 19:12If you have no need for the complete set of locales included in a Linux install,
here's one way to purge the ones you don't need and reclaim ~120MB of disk space.
The utility is called localepurge
Install it via the package manger, i.e sudo apt-get install localepurge
During installation it will ask you which locales you wish to retain
After installation, run it by issuing the command localepurge
When it finishes, it will display space freed in /usr/share/locale, /usr/share/man and the total.