community.general.locale_gen – Creates or removes locales

community.general.locale_gen – Creates or removes locales

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 1.3.2).

To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.locale_gen.

• Synopsis
• Parameters
• Examples

Synopsis

• Manages locales by editing /etc/locale.gen and invoking locale-gen.

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
name string / required		Name and encoding of the locale, such as "en_GB.UTF-8".
state string	absent present ←	Whether the locale shall be present.

Examples

- name: Ensure a locale exists
  community.general.locale_gen:
    name: de_CH.UTF-8
    state: present

Authors

• Augustus Kling (@AugustusKling)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2019 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.10/collections/community/general/locale_gen_module.html