diff --git a/meta/classes/rootfs_ipk.bbclass b/meta/classes/rootfs_ipk.bbclass
index 8a879680c5..2f18a24a79 100644
--- a/meta/classes/rootfs_ipk.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/rootfs_ipk.bbclass
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ fakeroot rootfs_ipk_do_rootfs () {
 	# Uclibc builds don't provide this stuff...
 	if [ x${TARGET_OS} = "xlinux" ] || [ x${TARGET_OS} = "xlinux-gnueabi" ] ; then 
 		if [ ! -z "${LINGUAS_INSTALL}" ]; then
-			opkg-cl ${IPKG_ARGS} install glibc-localedata-i18n
 			for i in ${LINGUAS_INSTALL}; do
 				opkg-cl ${IPKG_ARGS} install $i 
 			done