qwerty12, Thanks, looks like it was my bad. Just re-ran and it didn't touch my /usr/share/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES. Probably misconfigured locale.nopurge. Question though; I've seen some localepurge that take command line options, such as this Gentoo version. Is this deb based on a particular distribution's version or the pure script? I'm too lazy to look in the deb file . Thanks again. Pete