How to uninstall unwanted language packs on ubuntu 20-04?

dad98253 · October 1, 2020, 8:50pm

the answer provided by (the closed) question ‘Uninstalling language packs?’ does not work.
dpkg -l | grep libreoffice-l10n produces no output

dpkg -l | grep libreoffice produces the following output :

rc libreoffice ii libreoffice-avmedia-b ii libreoffice-base ii libreoffice-base-core ii libreoffice-base-drivers ii libreoffice-calc ii libreoffice-common ii libreoffice-core ii libreoffice-draw ii libreoffice-gnome ii libreoffice-gtk ii libreoffice-gtk2 ii libreoffice-gtk3 ii libreoffice-impress ii libreoffice-java-common ii libreoffice-math ii libreoffice-ogltrans ii libreoffice-pdfimport ii libreoffice-report-builder-bin ii libreoffice-sdbc-firebird rc libreoffice-sdbc-hsqldb ii libreoffice-style-breeze ii libreoffice-style-colibre ii libreoffice-style-elementary ii libreoffice-style-galaxy ii libreoffice-style-human ii libreoffice-style-sifr ii libreoffice-style-tango ii libreoffice-writer 1:5.1.6~rc2-0ubuntu1~xenial4 amd64 office productivity suite (metapackage)
ackend-gstreamer 1:6.4.6-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 amd64 transitional package for GStreamer backend for LibreOffice
1:6.4.6-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 amd64 office productivity suite – database
1:6.4.6-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 amd64 office productivity suite – shared library
1:6.4.6-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 amd64 Database connectivity drivers for LibreOffice
1:6.4.6-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 amd64 office productivity suite – spreadsheet
1:6.4.6-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 all office productivity suite – arch-independent files
1:6.4.6-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 amd64 office productivity suite – arch-dependent files
1:6.4.6-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 amd64 office productivity suite – drawing
1:6.4.6-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 amd64 office productivity suite – GNOME integration
1:6.4.6-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 all transitional package for LibreOffice gtk2 backend
1:6.4.6-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 all transitional package for LibreOffice gtk2 backend
1:6.4.6-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 amd64 office productivity suite – GTK+ 3 integration
1:6.4.6-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 amd64 office productivity suite – presentation
1:6.4.6-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 all office productivity suite – arch-independent Java support files
1:6.4.6-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 amd64 office productivity suite – equation editor
1:6.4.6-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 all transitional package for libreoffice-ogltrans
1:6.4.6-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 all transitional package for PDF Import component for LibreOffice
1:6.4.6-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 amd64 LibreOffice component for building database reports – libraries
1:6.4.6-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 amd64 Firebird SDBC driver for LibreOffice
1:6.4.6-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 amd64 HSQLDB SDBC driver for LibreOffice
1:6.4.6-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 all office productivity suite – Breeze symbol style
1:6.4.6-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 all office productivity suite – colibre symbol style
1:6.4.6-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 all office productivity suite – Elementary symbol style
1:6.4.6-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 all transitional package for Galaxy symbol style
1:6.4.6-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 all transitional package for Human symbol style
1:6.4.6-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 all office productivity suite – Sifr symbol style
1:6.4.6-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 all office productivity suite – Tango symbol style
1:6.4.6-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 amd64 office productivity suite – word processor

How does one do this on unubtu 20-04?

Also, I agree with the commenter on the referenced response: We shouldn’t have to download all of the language packs if we know what language we want. On a fresh install of ubuntu 20-04 desktop, the downloading of all of these packs accounted for a significant overall install time.

anon73440385 · October 1, 2020, 9:17pm

We shouldn’t have to download all of the language packs if we know what language we want.

Two remarks:

From my experience on Ubuntu this doesn’t happen. You have no additional language pack by default (and your output proves that)
If the statement would be true, you’d need to turn to Ubuntu maintainers who define the packages being installed by default. You are using Ubuntu’s repositories for the installation of LibreOffice (not the TDF packages from libreoffice.org) and they make their own packaging, dependencies and defaults.

anon73440385 · October 1, 2020, 9:11pm

Hello,

if you want uninstall additional language packs installed on your Ubuntu system, you could use the following command in a terminal:

dpkg --list | awk '/ii/&&/libreoffice-l10n/{print $2}' | sudo xargs apt purge --yes

which lists packages, filters installed (ii) and (&&) langugage packs (libreoffice-l10n) , prints the package name only ($2) and passes the result to the remove (purge) option of the installation command (apt)-

Note(s)

Your system doesn’t have any additional language pack(s) installed (as per your dpkg -l | grep libreoffice command output. You are using English (US) and this is the only language which doesn’t have an language pack, since it is the default language and the fallback language. In that sense this answer is useless for you.
To see a list of available (in the repository) language packs, execute: apt search libreoffice-l10 | grep ^libreoffice-l10

Hope that helps.