How To Install msghack on Fedora 34

msghack is Alter PO files in ways

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install msghack on Fedora 34.

What is msghack

This program can be used to alter .po files in ways no sane mind would think about.

We can use yum or dnf to install msghack on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install msghack.

Install msghack on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install msghack using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install msghack

Install msghack on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install msghack using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install msghack

How To Uninstall msghack on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the msghack package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove msghack

msghack Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/msghack
/usr/share/licenses/msghack
/usr/share/licenses/msghack/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/msghack.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install msghack on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.