6.30. Installing Gettext-0.10.39

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6.30.1. Installation of Gettext

Install Gettext by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make &&
make install

6.30.2. Contents

The gettext package contains the gettext, gettextize, msgcmp, msgcomm, msgfmt, msgmerge, msgunfmt and xgettext programs.

6.30.3. Description

6.30.3.1. gettext

The gettext package is used for internationalization (also known as i18n) and for localization (also known as l10n). Programs can be compiled with Native Language Support (NLS) which enable them to output messages in the users native language rather than in the default English language.

6.30.4. Dependencies

Gettext-0.10.39 needs the following to be installed:


sh from the bash package

ar from the binutils package
as from the binutils package
ld from the binutils package
nm from the binutils package

cmp from the diffutils package

chmod from the fileutils package
cp from the fileutils package
ln from the fileutils package
ls from the fileutils package
mkdir from the fileutils package
mv from the fileutils package
rm from the fileutils package
rmdir from the fileutils package

cc from the gcc package

egrep from the grep package
grep from the grep package

make from the make package

sed from the sed package

basename from the sh-utils package
echo from the sh-utils package
expr from the sh-utils package
sleep from the sh-utils package
uname from the sh-utils package

cat from the textutils package
sort from the textutils package
tr from the textutils package
uniq from the textutils package