Folks:
Just for kicks I booted up my new persistent live drive of Debian Bullseye and I just wanted to "upgrade" the system, so I ran an "apt" and it showed a bunch of "LibreOffice language packs" and LO "help" in different languages . . . . These days I only speak one language, so do I need to fill my usb drive with languages . . . ??? Is there a way to run "apt" without accepting all of the packages they show??
Here's why I'm asking . . . over in my desktop I have a new-ish bare metal install of Debian testing, and I had the same problem the other day, I just blithely ran apt and while it was installing I started seeing these packages with "libreoffice x x x x -de" and various such "suffixes" indicating languages. I thought it was because I had inadvertently hit the "language packages" icon on the Debian desktop, which automatically opened a terminal like window and started loading the languages . . . at that time I just quit the app to stop it. But then, a couple days later all those packages showed up, and I had to go into Synaptic and searching "libreoffice" showed all approx. 467 language/help packages and I manually went through and "marked for complete removal" . . . didn't know any "batch" way to remove them . . . w/o it being "scorched earth."
So, back over here in the laptop, booted up in persistent state . . . seems like apt wants to add all of the many languages in, even though I didn't ask for them . . . is there a way to "remove the request for international communication"???? before running apt, or, I'd have to do it the way I did it recently . . . install them, then go into Synaptic and remove them??? I don't want to remove "English" or "Merican" . . . but no need to have all of the planetary communications in my usb persistent state drive . . . .
thanks.