Help uninstalling extra languages from Open Office

David G. Miller (aka DaveAtFraud) dave at davenjudy.org
Fri Dec 23 00:04:54 UTC 2005


yonas at erimp3.com wrote:

> Mike McCarty wrote:
>
>> I have Open Office installed on my machine FC2. At the time I did
>> the install, either I missed the ability to specify what to install
>> or it wasn't presented. In either case, I wound up with a nearly
>> 1GB directory tree. I would like to shrink this if possible.
>> In particular, I don't speak or use most of the languages in the
>> language pack. I might find Spanish and German useful, but not
>> any of the rest. I've used man, info, and Google, but haven't had
>> any success at finding out how to *remove* the language pack,
>> or portions thereof. Reading the OO FAQ hasn't helped, either.
>>
>> Would anyone direct me where to do a more successful search for this
>> information, please?
>>
>> Mike
>
>
> try
>
> yum remove openoffice-i18n
>
>
That didn't work but:

yum remove 'openoffice.org-langpack*'

did.  Be sure to quote 'openoffice.org-langpack*' so that yum does the 
globbing and not the shell.  Besides free up a chunk of disk space, 
OpenOffice also seems to start significantly faster. 

Cheers,
Dave




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