localepurge (remove superfluous locale data) localepurge removes superfluous locale data from your system. It is a small script to recover disk space wasted for unneeded locale files and localized man pages. This is a script to recover disk space wasted for unneeded locales, Gnome/KDE localizations and localized man pages. Depending on the installation, it is possible to save some 200, 300, or even more mega bytes of disk space dedicated for localization you will most probably never have any use for. Before use of localepurge, please edit /etc/locale.nopurge commenting the line: NEEDSCONFIGFIRST.