localepurge (removing superfluous locale data) localepurge remove superfluous locale data into your system. Is a small script to recover disk space wasted for unneeded locale files and localized man pages. Before use of localepurge, please edit /etc/locale.nopurge commenting the line: NEEDSCONFIGFIRST. And modify lines at the end to your system locales: en en_GB es es_ES es_ES@euro es_ES.UTF-8 To your system locales, eg: Brazilian locales... pt pt_BR pt_BR.UTF-8 Finally run: localepurge At the end, you receive message like this: * localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/man: 4812K * localepurge: processing man pages in /usr/man ... * Total disk space freed by localepurge: 25144K