How To Install poedit-common on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install poedit-common on Kali Linux.

What is poedit-common

poedit-common is:

Poedit is an editor for gettext catalogs (.po files). It aims to provide a convenient approach to editing catalogs. It features UTF-8 support, fuzzy and untranslated records highlighting, whitespace highlighting, references browser, header editing and can be used to create new catalogs or update existing catalogs from source code with a single click. It is built with wxWidgets toolkit.

This package includes documentation, examples and locale files for the Debian poedit packages that are common for all architectures.

There are three methods to install poedit-common on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install poedit-common Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install poedit-common using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install poedit-common

Install poedit-common Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install poedit-common using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install poedit-common

Install poedit-common Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install poedit-common using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install poedit-common

How To Uninstall poedit-common on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the poedit-common package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove poedit-common

Uninstall poedit-common And Its Dependencies

To uninstall poedit-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove poedit-common

Remove poedit-common Configurations and Data

To remove poedit-common configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge poedit-common

Remove poedit-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove poedit-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge poedit-common

Dependencies

poedit-common have the following dependencies:

References

• poedit-common website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install poedit-common package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.