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[Gunnar Hjalmarsson <1532519@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for your report.

This is actually due to an issue in the installer. For cases when you
install Ubuntu without an internet connection, the installer always
creates a directory in /usr/share/locale-langpack for the selected
language, so you get prompted in the session to install the complete
language support.

The problem is that a directory is also created in /usr/share/locale-
langpack for the locale which denotes regional formats. So when the
selected time zone location results in some other initial locale for
regional formats than the locale for the selected language, a redundant
directory is created - in your case /usr/share/locale-langpack/tr . IMO
the installer should be changed to not create that directory.

@Usama: To fix it for yourself, and get rid of the 'semi-installed'
language, you can delete the /usr/share/locale-langpack/tr directory.
Alternatively you can accept to install the missing language support.
Then it should be marked as installed in the Language Support tool, and
you can delete it the normal way if you like.

** Package changed: language-selector (Ubuntu) => ubiquity (Ubuntu)

** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => High

** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

** Summary changed:

- Language support installed because of keyboard choice but not checked in installed languages
+ Locale for regional formats should not be treated as an incompletely installed language

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1532519

Title:
  Locale for regional formats should not be treated as an incompletely
  installed language

Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  When I was installing Ubuntu Xenial 16.04 I chose English as my
  installation language and Turkish keyboard was selected and time zone
  to Istanbul

  When I open language selector I see Turkish is in the list of
  "language for menus and windows:" and language selector suggest
  installing some Turkish language support packages like language-pack-
  tr

  However, I do not see Turkish selected in "Installed Languages" window
  which I open by clicking "Install/remove languages" button in the main
  window.

  The problem:
  Language support partly installed without me asking for and it's not showing in "Installed Languages" so I can not remove it.

  I think this issue might happen with many other languages. For example
  If you chose a French keyboard during an English language installation
  I could have this installed but not showing situation.

  What I expected:
  Just English language support installed.

  What happened:
  Turkish language support partially installed and not being able to remove it easily

  I brought the issue to #ubuntu+1 channel on freenode and it was suggested that I open  a bug
  Ubuntu Xenial Xerus (development branch)
  Release:	16.04

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