How To Install intltool on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install intltool on Rocky Linux 8. intltool is Utility for internationalizing various kinds of data files

Introduction

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

What is intltool

This tool automatically extracts translatable strings from oaf, glade, bonobo ui, nautilus theme, .desktop, and other data files and puts them in the po files.

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

Install intltool 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 intltool using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install intltool

Install intltool 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 intltool using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install intltool

How To Uninstall intltool on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove intltool

intltool Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/intltool-extract
/usr/bin/intltool-merge
/usr/bin/intltool-prepare
/usr/bin/intltool-update
/usr/bin/intltoolize
/usr/share/aclocal/intltool.m4
/usr/share/doc/intltool
/usr/share/doc/intltool/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/intltool/README
/usr/share/intltool
/usr/share/intltool/Makefile.in.in
/usr/share/licenses/intltool
/usr/share/licenses/intltool/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/intltool-extract.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/intltool-merge.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/intltool-prepare.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/intltool-update.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/intltoolize.8.gz

References

Summary

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