How To Install intltool on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install intltool on CentOS 7. intltool is Utility for internationalizing various kinds of data files

Introduction

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

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

Install intltool on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install intltool

Install intltool 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 intltool using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install intltool

How To Uninstall intltool on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove intltool

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Summary

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