get rid of unused languages in kde install

[clariceoshea]

yum install kde* gave me a bunch of languages I'll never use

I do need English (American)

some of them:

[qt4user@lmkiii ~]$ rpm -qa|grep -i i18n
kde-i18n-German-3.5.10-15.fc15.noarch
kde-i18n-Polish-3.5.10-15.fc15.noarch
kde-i18n-Hindi-3.5.10-15.fc15.noarch
kde-i18n-Ukrainian-3.5.10-15.fc15.noarch
kde-i18n-Russian-3.5.10-15.fc15.noarch
kde-i18n-Serbian-3.5.10-15.fc15.noarch
kde-i18n-Slovak-3.5.10-15.fc15.noarch
kde-i18n-Spanish-3.5.10-15.fc15.noarch
kde-i18n-Norwegian-Nynorsk-3.5.10-15.fc15.noarch
kde-i18n-French-3.5.10-15.fc15.noarch
kde-i18n-Swedish-3.5.10-15.fc15.noarch
kde-i18n-Dutch-3.5.10-15.fc15.noarch
kde-i18n-Brazil-3.5.10-15.fc15.noarch
kde-i18n-Czech-3.5.10-15.fc15.noarch
kde-i18n-Punjabi-3.5.10-15.fc15.noarch
kde-i18n-Turkish-3.5.10-15.fc15.noarch
kde-i18n-Slovenian-3.5.10-15.fc15.noarch
kde-i18n-Bengali-3.5.10-15.fc15.noarch
kde-i18n-Catalan-3.5.10-15.fc15.noarch
kde-i18n-Japanese-3.5.10-15.fc15.noarch
kde-i18n-Estonian-3.5.10-15.fc15.noarch
kde-i18n-Chinese-Big5-3.5.10-15.fc15.noarch
kde-i18n-Norwegian-3.5.10-15.fc15.noarch
kde-i18n-Portuguese-3.5.10-15.fc15.noarch
kde-i18n-Danish-3.5.10-15.fc15.noarch
kde-i18n-Lithuanian-3.5.10-15.fc15.noarch
kde-i18n-3.5.10-15.fc15.noarch
kde-i18n-Tamil-3.5.10-15.fc15.noarch
kde-i18n-Icelandic-3.5.10-15.fc15.noarch
kde-i18n-Romanian-3.5.10-15.fc15.noarch
kde-i18n-Bulgarian-3.5.10-15.fc15.noarch
kde-i18n-British-3.5.10-15.fc15.noarch
kde-i18n-Hebrew-3.5.10-15.fc15.noarch
kde-i18n-Finnish-3.5.10-15.fc15.noarch
kde-i18n-Hungarian-3.5.10-15.fc15.noarch
plexus-i18n-1.0-0.b10.2.fc15.1.noarch
kde-i18n-Chinese-3.5.10-15.fc15.noarch
kde-i18n-Italian-3.5.10-15.fc15.noarch
kde-i18n-Arabic-3.5.10-15.fc15.noarch
kde-i18n-Greek-3.5.10-15.fc15.noarch
kde-i18n-Korean-3.5.10-15.fc15.noarch
[qt4user@lmkiii ~]$

[rolandm]

For US-only you should need only kde-i18n-3.5.x.y. i.e. the basic kde-i18n followed indimmediately by the version tag.

Probably, the following works:

1. Step: make a list to afilenamed e.g. KillList
[root@rmu40]# yum list installed kde-i18n-\* | grep ^kde | awk '{ print $1 }' | tee KillList
kde-i18n.noarch
kde-i18n-Finnish.noarch
kde-i18n-German.noarch
kde-i18n-Hungarian.noarch

2. Step: Edit the file and remove the package you want to keep

3. Step: Do the removal using yum

[root@rmu40 ]# yum remove $(cat KillList )

You'll see alist what yum wants to remove. Check this list carefully rather than blindly hitting y (for yes)!!!! There may be dependencies to rpm packages you nevertheless like to use.

Hope that helps!
-Roland

[clariceoshea]

thanks...that worked perfectly saving much needed disk space

[cowboy83]

[QUOTE=clariceoshea;1570351]yum install kde* gave me a bunch of languages I'll never use

I do need English


Hi.
I agree. Far too many languages put in at install-and updated!
I only wanted English (UK) and English (American)...as a back up maybe ;-)

Instead had 26 other languages, mainly Asian, Middle Eastern, Far Eastern. Not needed. Not wanted. I do not understand why so many put in at install instead of only during subsequent updates perhaps-if someone wants them.

Great distro though .but way too many languages

[clariceoshea]

I got rid of the languages but why do they show up as being updates

in my yum update

Cleanup : kde-l10n-Chinese-4.8.2-1.fc16.noarch 529/574
Cleanup : kde-l10n-Hebrew-4.8.2-1.fc16.noarch 530/574
Cleanup : kde-l10n-Interlingua-4.8.2-1.fc16.noarch 531/574
Cleanup : kde-l10n-Croatian-4.8.2-1.fc16.noarch 532/574
Cleanup : kde-l10n-Catalan-4.8.2-1.fc16.noarch 533/574
Cleanup : kde-l10n-Japanese-4.8.2-1.fc16.noarch 534/574
Cleanup : kde-l10n-Swedish-4.8.2-1.fc16.noarch 535/574
Cleanup : kde-l10n-Khmer-4.8.2-1.fc16.noarch 536/574
Cleanup : kde-l10n-Arabic-4.8.2-1.fc16.noarch 537/574
Cleanup : kde-l10n-Indonesian-4.8.2-1.fc16.noarch 538/574
Cleanup : kde-l10n-Turkish-4.8.2-1.fc16.noarch 539/574
Cleanup : kde-l10n-Serbian-4.8.2-1.fc16.noarch 540/574
Cleanup : 1:grub2-1.99-13.fc16.2.i686 541/574
Cleanup : kde-l10n-Hungarian-4.8.2-1.fc16.noarch 542/574
Cleanup : kde-l10n-Spanish-4.8.2-1.fc16.noarch 543/574
Cleanup : kde-l10n-Walloon-4.8.2-1.fc16.noarch 544/574
Cleanup : kde-l10n-Estonian-4.8.2-1.fc16.noarch 545/574
Cleanup : kde-l10n-Lithuanian-4.8.2-1.fc16.noarch 546/574
Cleanup : kde-l10n-Uyghur-4.8.2-1.fc16.noarch

[george_toolan]

What seems to be the problem? It does say "Cleanup", doesn't it?

You explicitly installed everything, which wasn't a very bright idea ;-)

Next time try

yum group install "KDE Software Compilation"

instead.

[clariceoshea]

(1) where did I install everything? If a package needs updating, update it.

(2) Obviously I could NOT post everything from the yum update due to its size 1.1 Gig

so I posted a few lines from the cleanup to show an update for languages was involved

(3) your words invite a flaming war popular on these forums. Learn to be sure of what you are saying before

shooting off your comments. I will overlook your comments for now

[leosubhadeep]

Guys I have a question. If I want to install English (India) and English (UK) for keyboard layout which are not in my system (FC 17 X86_64 KDE), what should i do?

Thanks in advance.