Apt-get continually generates locales.

[Dave_Bechtel]

--Localepurge is pretty good, but I have no visibly bad results from just removing the locales package entirely.

' apt-get remove --purge locales '

Edit the file /etc/locale.gen comment out the locales you do not want generated then apt-get install localepurge the configuration utility will run and make sure the locales you commented out in the file are the same in the config program accept the changes. The locale-gen program will generate the locales in the config file locale.gen. Now every time you apt-get localepurge will run and purge the excess locales that were installed during the apt-get. This worked for me YMMV.

All this in a root console of course.