How To Install virtaal on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install virtaal on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is virtaal
virtaal is:
Virtaal is a graphical localisation editor that is designed to offer the translator an uncluttered interface for translating text. Virtaal supports a wide variety of common formats including PO and XLIFF files (and everything else that the translate-toolkit package supports).
There are three methods to install virtaal on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install virtaal Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install virtaal using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install virtaal
Install virtaal Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install virtaal using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install virtaal
Install virtaal 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 virtaal using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install virtaal
How To Uninstall virtaal on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the virtaal package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove virtaal
Uninstall virtaal And Its Dependencies
To uninstall virtaal and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove virtaal
Remove virtaal Configurations and Data
To remove virtaal configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge virtaal
Remove virtaal configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove virtaal configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge virtaal
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install virtaal package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.