How To Install intltool on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install intltool
on Debian 11.
What is intltool
intltool is:
Automatically extracts translatable strings from oaf, glade, bonobo ui, nautilus theme and other XML files into the po files.
Automatically merges translations from po files back into .oaf files (encoding to be 7-bit clean). The merging mechanism can also be extended to support other types of XML files.
There are three methods to install intltool
on Debian 11. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install intltool Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install intltool
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install intltool
Install intltool Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install intltool
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install intltool
Install intltool Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install intltool
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install intltool
How To Uninstall intltool on Debian 11
To uninstall only the intltool
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove intltool
Uninstall intltool And Its Dependencies
To uninstall intltool
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove intltool
Remove intltool Configurations and Data
To remove intltool
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge intltool
Remove intltool configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove intltool
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge intltool
Dependencies
intltool have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install intltool
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.