remove language packs

[Claude Jones]

Scott wrote:

> Claude Jones wrote:
>
>> During my Linux apprenticeship, I have followed the advice in The 
>> Linux Bible and have done 'Everything' installs. I am ready to start 
>> deleting packages now that I know more, and would like to start with 
>> the huge collection of language packs, the il8n's, which take up a 
>> huge amount of the upgrade time and are not at all used by me. Is 
>> there a simple way to revert to an English only installation, or do I 
>> have to delete these one by one? I was trying yum remove on these, 
>> and I'm not even sure it worked, so, question 2 is, is yum remove the 
>> best way to do this?
>
>
>    Claude:
>
>    Yum remove will work fine, if you know the package name you want to 
> remove, but it is a little faster to use rpm
> instead, mostly because the is no need to contact repos or download 
> the repo info files etc.
>
>    In the newer OOo1.9.8xxx each language is seperate and you can see 
> which you have by goimg to a shell and typing:
>
> rpm -qa | grep langpack
>
> then delete them by typing:
>
> rpm -e (list of packages from previous step)
>
> in older OOo versions there is only one language file.  I have 
> forgotten the name of it, but if you type in a terminal:
>
> rpm -qa | grep openoffice
>
> you should get a list of 2 or 3 packages and it should be easy to see 
> which is the one for languages. Since english is default, it is built 
> in to the base package, no extra language pack is required
>
> P.S. if you do use the newer OOo and have all of those language packs 
> it would be easier to use the regular expression in yum to remove them 
> (i.e. yum remove *langpack)  rpm disallows regular expressions iirc
>
Hmmm... That first command didn't work. It yielded no results. But then 
I tried: "rpm -qa | grep kde-i18n-"
And that got me the whole list.
"rpm -e [the list]" got rid of them.

-- 
Claude Jones
Bluemont, VA, USA