How To Install po4a on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install po4a
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is po4a
po4a is:
po4a eases the translation of documentation and other textual document. Even more interestingly, it makes it easy to maintain these translations when the original document changes. This is done by using the gettext tools in this new domain.
This package contains the main libraries of po4a, and the necessary sub-modules to handle the following formats:
- Dia: uncompressed Dia diagrams.
- INI: the INI format
- KernelHelp: Help messages of each kernel compilation option.
- LaTeX: generic TeX or LaTeX format.
- Man: either roff or mdoc format.
- POD: Perl documentation format.
- SGML: either DebianDoc or DocBook DTD.
- RubyDoc: Ruby documentation format.
- Texinfo: the info page format.
- XML: very configurable (preconfigured for DocBook, XHTML, Guide, WML).
There are three methods to install po4a
on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install po4a Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install po4a
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install po4a
Install po4a Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install po4a
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install po4a
Install po4a Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install po4a
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install po4a
How To Uninstall po4a on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the po4a
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove po4a
Uninstall po4a And Its Dependencies
To uninstall po4a
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove po4a
Remove po4a Configurations and Data
To remove po4a
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge po4a
Remove po4a configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove po4a
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge po4a
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install po4a
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.