System Administration Guide: Advanced Administration

ProcedureHow to Remove a Locale From a System

  1. Become superuser or assume an equivalent role.

    Roles contain authorizations and privileged commands. For more information about roles, see Configuring RBAC (Task Map) in System Administration Guide: Security Services.

  2. Remove the packages for the locale installed on your system using the localeadm command. The -r option and a locale identifies the locale that you want to remove from the system. To remove the Central European region (ceu) from your system, for example:


    # localeadm -r ceu
    locale/region name is ceu
    Removing packages for Central Europe (ceu)
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    One or more locales have been removed.
    To update the list of locales available
    at the login screen's "Options->Language" menu,
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