How To Install babel on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install babel on Rocky Linux 8. babel is Tools for internationalizing Python applications

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install babel on Rocky Linux 8.

What is babel

Babel is composed of two major parts * tools to build and work with gettext message catalogs * a Python interface to the CLDR (Common Locale Data Repository), providing access to various locale display names, localized number and date formatting, etc.

We can use yum or dnf to install babel on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install babel.

Install babel on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install babel

Install babel on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install babel

How To Uninstall babel on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove babel

babel Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/pybabel-2
/usr/bin/pybabel-2.7
/usr/share/doc/babel
/usr/share/doc/babel/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/babel/CHANGES
/usr/share/licenses/babel
/usr/share/licenses/babel/LICENSE

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install babel on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.