How To Install omegat on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install omegat on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is omegat
omegat is:
OmegaT’s main features are
- multiple source texts handling, retaining complex folder hierarchies
- fuzzy matching with other segments in the source file(s) or TMX files from previous projects
- easy glossary terms management
- flexible regex-based sentence segmenting (using an SRX-like method)
- powerful regex-based searches along with the facility to apply a filter to display search results in the editor
- ability to batch process documents from the command line
- extended project statistics
- easy-to-understand documentation and tutorial
- plugin architecture with separate Lucene stemmer (recognition of inflected forms) and LanguageTool (style and grammar checker) plugins
- integration with Hunspell for spelling checking
- simple API to access source/target/selection textual data
OmegaT supports 24 formats, including documentation formats such as OpenDocument, Open XML (MS Office 2007), DocBook and (x)HTML, and also localization formats such as Java properties and PO files. An Okapi plugin can further extend the supported formats, for example to include TTX (TradosTag).
There are three methods to install omegat on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install omegat Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install omegat using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install omegat
Install omegat Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install omegat using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install omegat
Install omegat 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 omegat using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install omegat
How To Uninstall omegat on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the omegat package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove omegat
Uninstall omegat And Its Dependencies
To uninstall omegat and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove omegat
Remove omegat Configurations and Data
To remove omegat configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge omegat
Remove omegat configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove omegat configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge omegat
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install omegat package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
