How To Install whois-nls on CentOS 8

whois-nls is Gettext catalogs for whois tools

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install whois-nls on CentOS 8.

What is whois-nls

whois tools messages translated into different natural languages.

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

Install whois-nls 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 whois-nls using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install whois-nls

Install whois-nls 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 whois-nls using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install whois-nls

How To Uninstall whois-nls on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the whois-nls package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove whois-nls

whois-nls Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/whois.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/whois.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/whois.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/whois.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/whois.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/whois.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/whois.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/whois.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/whois.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/whois.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/whois.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/whois.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/whois.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/whois.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/whois.mo

References

Summary

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