How To Install po4a on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install po4a on CentOS 7. po4a is A tool maintaining translations anywhere

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install po4a on CentOS 7.

What is po4a

The po4a (po for anything) project goal is to ease translations (and more interestingly, the maintenance of translations) using gettext tools on areas where they were not expected like documentation.

We can use yum or dnf to install po4a on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install po4a.

Install po4a on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install po4a using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install po4a

Install po4a 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 po4a using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install po4a

How To Uninstall po4a on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the po4a package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove po4a

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install po4a on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.