How To Install itstool on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install itstool on Rocky Linux 8. itstool is ITS-based XML translation tool

Introduction

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

What is itstool

ITS Tool allows you to translate XML documents with PO files, using rules from the W3C Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) to determine what to translate and how to separate it into PO file messages.

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

Install itstool 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 itstool using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install itstool

Install itstool 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 itstool using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install itstool

How To Uninstall itstool on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove itstool

itstool Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/itstool
/usr/share/doc/itstool
/usr/share/doc/itstool/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/itstool/COPYING.GPL3
/usr/share/doc/itstool/NEWS
/usr/share/itstool
/usr/share/itstool/its
/usr/share/itstool/its/docbook.its
/usr/share/itstool/its/docbook5.its
/usr/share/itstool/its/its.its
/usr/share/itstool/its/mallard.its
/usr/share/itstool/its/ttml.its
/usr/share/itstool/its/xhtml.its
/usr/share/man/man1/itstool.1.gz

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Summary

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