How To Install translate-shell on CentOS 8

translate-shell is A command-line online translator

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install translate-shell on CentOS 8.

What is translate-shell

Translate Shell (formerly Google Translate CLI) is a command-line translator powered by Google Translate (default), Bing Translator, Yandex.Translate and Apertium.

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

Install translate-shell 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 translate-shell using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install translate-shell

Install translate-shell 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 translate-shell using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install translate-shell

How To Uninstall translate-shell on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the translate-shell package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove translate-shell

translate-shell Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/trans
/usr/share/doc/translate-shell
/usr/share/doc/translate-shell/CONTRIBUTING.md
/usr/share/doc/translate-shell/README.md
/usr/share/doc/translate-shell/WAIVER
/usr/share/licenses/translate-shell
/usr/share/licenses/translate-shell/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/trans.1.gz

References

Summary

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