How To Install intltool on Fedora 34

intltool is Utility for internationalizing various kinds of data files

Introduction

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

What is intltool

This tool automatically extracts translatable strings from oaf, glade, bonobo ui, nautilus theme, .desktop, and other data files and puts them in the po files.

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

Install intltool 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 intltool using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install intltool

Install intltool 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 intltool using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install intltool

How To Uninstall intltool on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove intltool

intltool Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/intltool-extract
/usr/bin/intltool-merge
/usr/bin/intltool-prepare
/usr/bin/intltool-update
/usr/bin/intltoolize
/usr/share/aclocal/intltool.m4
/usr/share/doc/intltool
/usr/share/doc/intltool/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/intltool/README
/usr/share/intltool
/usr/share/intltool/Makefile.in.in
/usr/share/licenses/intltool
/usr/share/licenses/intltool/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/intltool-extract.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/intltool-merge.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/intltool-prepare.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/intltool-update.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/intltoolize.8.gz

References

Summary

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