How To Install babel on Fedora 34

babel is Tools for internationalizing Python applications

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install babel on Fedora 34.

What is `babel`

Babel is composed of two major parts * tools to build and work with gettext message catalogs * a Python interface to the CLDR (Common Locale Data Repository), providing access to various locale display names, localized number and date formatting, etc.

We can use yum or dnf to install babel on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install babel.

Install babel on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install babel using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install babel

Install babel on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install babel using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install babel

How To Uninstall babel on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove babel

babel Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/pybabel
/usr/share/doc/babel
/usr/share/doc/babel/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/babel/CHANGES
/usr/share/licenses/babel
/usr/share/licenses/babel/LICENSE

References

babel website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install babel on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.