How To Install langtable on CentOS 8

langtable is Guessing reasonable defaults for locale, keyboard layout, territory, and language.

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install langtable on CentOS 8.

What is langtable

langtable is used to guess reasonable defaults for locale, keyboard layout, territory, and language, if part of that information is already known. For example, guess the territory and the keyboard layout if the language is known or guess the language and keyboard layout if the territory is already known.

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

Install langtable 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 langtable using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install langtable

Install langtable 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 langtable using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install langtable

How To Uninstall langtable on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove langtable

langtable Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/share/doc/langtable
/usr/share/doc/langtable/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/langtable/README
/usr/share/doc/langtable/keyboards.rng
/usr/share/doc/langtable/languages.rng
/usr/share/doc/langtable/territories.rng
/usr/share/doc/langtable/test_cases.py
/usr/share/doc/langtable/timezoneidparts.rng
/usr/share/doc/langtable/timezones.rng
/usr/share/licenses/langtable
/usr/share/licenses/langtable/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/langtable/unicode-license.txt

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install langtable on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.