Antix-m8, basic version.

After reading macondo's notes about localepurge (
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" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false ... ostcount=6 ), I downloaded it and looked at the locales it allows, and found some that I don't know what they are. I use US english and spanish. Do I need any others?

I see: bg, ca, cs, da, el, fi, ga, he, hr, hn, ko, mk, nb, nl, nn, pl, pt, ro, ru, sk, sl, sv, tr, zh. I know what de (german), fr (french), it (italian), and ja (japanese) are but I can't read anything that might show up in those languages. I assume the others are different languages somewhere, yes?

So, what would happen if I delete all but en, en_US, and es?

In faith, Dave
Viva Texas

I'm dutch, and I have installed localepurge, and edited my 'etc/locale no-purge' file immediately so that there is only en, en_US, en_US.UTF8, nl. nl_NL.UTF8. This didn't remove anything essential for my system. Removing all the locale-files is quit a job, and locale-purge removes the redundant locale-files every time you update your packagefiles. Otherwise they keep coming back. __{{emoticon}}__

Greetings,

Good luck!

Older versions of antiX came with locale purge installed, but as I deliberately chose to improve localisation, I removed it.

If you know you only want to use 2 or three languages, do as Hannes Worst suggests.
You can still use, for example, apps in English and German (you need to set it up though).
Locales purge will remove a lot of 'language' files, maybe 30-50MB worth, but that is not a problem if you don't need Greek stuff on your box anyway.

You can do like Hannes Worst or use localepurge (disable with the space bar) all the ones you don't use. I also only use en and es, the rest i disable, what this does is that it eliminates all the locales in a package that you install and also in your sistem. Like anticapitalista said, this amounts to 30-70 MB of space in your hd.

Here's a
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of locales abbreviations (scroogle.org came thru)

maybe localepurge should had stayed. i edited /etc/locale.nopurge and leaved in the list: GB - great britain , US - us & a and removed GR - greece is that what they mean? can i leave only one ?

OK, thank y'all for the help. I'm going to delete everything except English and Spanish. I'm trying to keep Antix 8M as light as possible to act as a base for experimentally running many distros, including Antix, in virtual machines.

In faith, Dave
Viva Texas

Windows: Flaky, and built to stay that way.

I just updated to Squeeze and localepurge eliminated 117364 kb.
Not bad __{{emoticon}}__

I'm using the 'testing' repositories... that would be the same thing, no?

In faith, Dave
Viva Texas

dpeirce wrote:I'm using the 'testing' repositories... that would be the same thing, no?

Yes.
stable = lenny
testing = squeeze
unstable = sid = where men are men, and the sheep are nervous.

Thanks. I tried sid once before but I must have been too sheepish :^>. It was an awful lot of work, but I was updating whenever the notifier said to - 3 or 4 times a day, and lots of broken stuff and reinstalls. It was fun but it kept me from doing other stuff I wanted to do. Several here, though, have pointed out that it's better to update every week or two. I'll probably try the unstable repos in Antix later on and follow their advice.

In faith, Dave
Viva Texas

Windows: A good, safe, and reliable OS if kept in its original unbroken packaging.

dpeirce wrote:Several here, though, have pointed out that it's better to update every week or two. I'll probably try the unstable repos in Antix later on and follow their advice.

To each his own, when i use Testing or Sid, i update/dist-upgrade every morning before i start and that's it (once a day); i don't have a 'notifier'. I can't imagine upgrading every 2 weeks, the amount of upgrades and the time spent doing it must be huge. I install apt-listbugs and that's it.

That might possibly put a damper on things. I'll have to see. I can't afford the time to update every morning; I'm retired and have a bunch of stuff I want to do :^).

In faith, Dave
Viva Texas

There are 10 kinds of people in the world - those who understand binary and those who don't.

Testing is not bad but sid is a moving target. By updating frequently you increase your chances of a break. The same package may be changed several times in a couple days. I update about every week and with the help of smxi i rarely see a broken package.

My plan is to try Antix testing and antix unstable side-by-side in VMs on this Antix base and compare them.

Erifisher, I remember you said that to me earlier, and that you helped me on the sidux forum when I tried sidux before. Just want you to know I appreciate your efforts to help (and everybody's here).

In faith, Dave
Viva Texas

dpeirce wrote:That might possibly put a damper on things. I'll have to see. I can't afford the time to update every morning; I'm retired and have a bunch of stuff I want to do :^).

Same here, retired too. Thus, IMHO, it's better to update a couple of minutes (sometimes nothing) every day than 30 minutes once a week. Besides, if there is something to fix that is broken you do it right away; not mentioning a security update. If you have a slow internet connection then Lenny is the ticket.