Localpurge is a nice little package that helps you to save a bit of space by removing unused locales. And surely I’m not the first one that writes about it…
abate@zed.fr:~$sudo aptitude install localepurge
The following NEW packages will be installed:
localepurge
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 103 not upgraded.
Need to get 44.9 kB of archives. After unpacking 172 kB will be used.
Get:1 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main localepurge all 0.6.2+nmu2 [44.9 kB]
Fetched 44.9 kB in 0s (94.6 kB/s)
Reading package fields... Done
Reading package status... Done
Retrieving bug reports... Done
Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package localepurge.
(Reading database ... 187978 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking localepurge (from .../localepurge_0.6.2+nmu2_all.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up localepurge (0.6.2+nmu2) ...
Creating config file /etc/locale.nopurge with new version
abate@zed.fr:~$sudo localepurge
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/locale: 428676 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/man: 5332 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/gnome/help: 100468 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/omf: 3016 KiB
Total disk space freed by localepurge: 537492 KiB