How To Install itstool on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install itstool on CentOS 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 CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install itstool.
Install itstool on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install itstool using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install itstool
Install itstool on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
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 CentOS 8
To uninstall only the itstool package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove itstool
itstool Package Contents on CentOS 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install itstool on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
