How To Install poedit-common on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install poedit-common on Ubuntu 18.04.
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 Ubuntu 18.04. 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 first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 18.04
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 Ubuntu 18.04, 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 Ubuntu 18.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install poedit-common package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
