How To Install gettext.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install gettext.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. gettext.x86_64 is GNU libraries and utilities for producing multi-lingual messages

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gettext.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `gettext.x86_64`

The GNU gettext package provides a set of tools and documentation for producing multi-lingual messages in programs. Tools include a set of conventions about how programs should be written to support message catalogs, a directory and file naming organization for the message catalogs, a runtime library which supports the retrieval of translated messages, and stand-alone programs for handling the translatable and the already translated strings. Gettext provides an easy to use library and tools for creating, using, and modifying natural language catalogs and is a powerful and simple method for internationalizing programs.

We can use yum to install gettext.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gettext.x86_64.

Install gettext.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install gettext.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gettext.x86_64

How To Uninstall gettext.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the gettext.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove gettext.x86_64

gettext.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/envsubst
/usr/bin/gettext
/usr/bin/gettext.sh
/usr/bin/msgattrib
/usr/bin/msgcat
/usr/bin/msgcmp
/usr/bin/msgcomm
/usr/bin/msgconv
/usr/bin/msgen
/usr/bin/msgexec
/usr/bin/msgfilter
/usr/bin/msgfmt
/usr/bin/msggrep
/usr/bin/msghack
/usr/bin/msginit
/usr/bin/msgmerge
/usr/bin/msgunfmt
/usr/bin/msguniq
/usr/bin/ngettext
/usr/bin/recode-sr-latin
/usr/bin/xgettext
/usr/lib64/gettext
/usr/lib64/gettext/cldr-plurals
/usr/lib64/gettext/hostname
/usr/lib64/gettext/project-id
/usr/lib64/gettext/urlget
/usr/lib64/gettext/user-email
/usr/share/doc/gettext-0.19.8.1
/usr/share/doc/gettext-0.19.8.1/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/gettext-0.19.8.1/BUGS
/usr/share/doc/gettext-0.19.8.1/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/gettext-0.19.8.1/COPYING.LIB
/usr/share/doc/gettext-0.19.8.1/DISCLAIM
/usr/share/doc/gettext-0.19.8.1/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/gettext-0.19.8.1/README
/usr/share/doc/gettext-0.19.8.1/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/gettext-0.19.8.1/envsubst.1.html
/usr/share/doc/gettext-0.19.8.1/gettext.1.html
/usr/share/doc/gettext-0.19.8.1/ngettext.1.html
/usr/share/gettext
/usr/share/gettext-0.19.8
/usr/share/gettext-0.19.8/its
/usr/share/gettext-0.19.8/its/appdata.its
/usr/share/gettext-0.19.8/its/appdata.loc
/usr/share/gettext-0.19.8/its/glade.loc
/usr/share/gettext-0.19.8/its/glade1.its
/usr/share/gettext-0.19.8/its/glade2.its
/usr/share/gettext-0.19.8/its/gsettings.its
/usr/share/gettext-0.19.8/its/gsettings.loc
/usr/share/gettext-0.19.8/its/gtkbuilder.its
/usr/share/gettext/ABOUT-NLS
/usr/share/gettext/its
/usr/share/gettext/po
/usr/share/gettext/po/Makefile.in.in
/usr/share/gettext/po/Makevars.template
/usr/share/gettext/po/Rules-quot
/usr/share/gettext/po/boldquot.sed
/usr/share/gettext/po/[email protected]
/usr/share/gettext/po/[email protected]
/usr/share/gettext/po/insert-header.sin
/usr/share/gettext/po/quot.sed
/usr/share/gettext/po/remove-potcdate.sin
/usr/share/gettext/styles
/usr/share/gettext/styles/po-default.css
/usr/share/gettext/styles/po-emacs-x.css
/usr/share/gettext/styles/po-emacs-xterm.css
/usr/share/gettext/styles/po-emacs-xterm16.css
/usr/share/gettext/styles/po-emacs-xterm256.css
/usr/share/gettext/styles/po-vim.css
/usr/share/info/gettext.info.gz
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-runtime.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-tools.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-runtime.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-tools.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-runtime.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-tools.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-runtime.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-tools.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-runtime.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-tools.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-runtime.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-tools.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-runtime.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-tools.mo
/usr/share/locale/en@boldquot/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-runtime.mo
/usr/share/locale/en@boldquot/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-tools.mo
/usr/share/locale/en@quot/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-runtime.mo
/usr/share/locale/en@quot/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-tools.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-runtime.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-runtime.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-tools.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-runtime.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-tools.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-tools.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-runtime.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-tools.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-runtime.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-tools.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-runtime.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-runtime.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-tools.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-runtime.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-runtime.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-runtime.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-tools.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-runtime.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-tools.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-runtime.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-tools.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-runtime.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-tools.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-runtime.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-tools.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-runtime.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-tools.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-runtime.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-tools.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-tools.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-runtime.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-tools.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-runtime.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-tools.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-runtime.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-tools.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-runtime.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-tools.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-runtime.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-tools.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-runtime.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-tools.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-runtime.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-tools.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-runtime.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-tools.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-runtime.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-tools.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-runtime.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-tools.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-runtime.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-tools.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-runtime.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-tools.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-runtime.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-tools.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_HK/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-runtime.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-runtime.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-tools.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/envsubst.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/gettext.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/gettextize.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/msgattrib.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/msgcat.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/msgcmp.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/msgcomm.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/msgconv.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/msgen.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/msgexec.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/msgfilter.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/msgfmt.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/msggrep.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/msghack.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/msginit.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/msgmerge.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/msgunfmt.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/msguniq.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ngettext.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/recode-sr-latin.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/xgettext.1.gz

References

gettext.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gettext.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.