How To Install qt4-linguist-tools on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install qt4-linguist-tools
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is qt4-linguist-tools
qt4-linguist-tools is:
Qt is a cross-platform C++ application framework. Qt’s primary feature is its rich set of widgets that provide standard GUI functionality.
This package contains lupdate and lrelease. lupdate is a command line tool that finds the translatable strings in the specified source, header and Qt Designer interface files, and produces or updates .ts translation files. lrelease is a command line tool that produces QM files out of TS files.
There are three methods to install qt4-linguist-tools
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 qt4-linguist-tools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install qt4-linguist-tools
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install qt4-linguist-tools
Install qt4-linguist-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install qt4-linguist-tools
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install qt4-linguist-tools
Install qt4-linguist-tools 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 qt4-linguist-tools
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install qt4-linguist-tools
How To Uninstall qt4-linguist-tools on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the qt4-linguist-tools
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove qt4-linguist-tools
Uninstall qt4-linguist-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall qt4-linguist-tools
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove qt4-linguist-tools
Remove qt4-linguist-tools Configurations and Data
To remove qt4-linguist-tools
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge qt4-linguist-tools
Remove qt4-linguist-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove qt4-linguist-tools
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge qt4-linguist-tools
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install qt4-linguist-tools
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.