How To Install babel on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install babel on CentOS 7. babel is Tools for internationalizing Python applications

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install babel on CentOS 7.

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 CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install babel.

Install babel on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install babel

Install babel on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

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

sudo dnf -y install babel

How To Uninstall babel on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove babel

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install babel on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.