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Non-English language files for Firefox and LibreOffice

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imrazor
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Non-English language files for Firefox and LibreOffice

#1 Post by imrazor »

For some reason, Debian Stretch seems to install dozens of different languages for Firefox and LibreOffice. This takes up disk space, and is particularly annoying and time consuming when updating. Is there any way to remove or exclude these languages?

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Re: Non-English language files for Firefox and LibreOffice

#2 Post by cronoik »

The firefox languages packages are named firefox-esr-l10n-XXX and the libreoffice languages packages libreoffice-l10n-XXX. You can remove them but be carefull with dependencies. You can check why a package was installed with:

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aptitude why PACKAGE
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Re: Non-English language files for Firefox and LibreOffice

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# aptitude why libreoffice-help-dz
i   live-task-localisation-desktop Recommends task-dzongkha-desktop
i A task-dzongkha-desktop          Recommends libreoffice-help-dz 
Not really sure what to make of that. Do I need to remove "live-task-localization-desktop", or would that be dangerous?

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Re: Non-English language files for Firefox and LibreOffice

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apt purge live-task-localisation-desktop task-dzongkha-desktop
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