How To Install po4a on Ubuntu

Posted on April 1, 2023  (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install po4a on Ubuntu.

What is po4a

po4a is:

po4a eases the translation of documentation and other textual document. Even more interestingly, it makes it easy to maintain these translations when the original document changes. This is done by using the gettext tools in this new domain.

This package contains the main libraries of po4a, and the necessary sub-modules to handle the following formats:

• Dia: uncompressed Dia diagrams.
• INI: the INI format
• KernelHelp: Help messages of each kernel compilation option.
• LaTeX: generic TeX or LaTeX format.
• Man: either roff or mdoc format.
• POD: Perl documentation format.
• SGML: either DebianDoc or DocBook DTD.
• RubyDoc: Ruby documentation format.
• Texinfo: the info page format.
• XML: very configurable (preconfigured for DocBook, XHTML, Guide, WML).
• Yaml: Yaml documents.

There are three methods to install po4a on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install po4a Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install po4a using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install po4a

Install po4a Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install po4a using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install po4a

Install po4a 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 po4a using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install po4a

How To Uninstall po4a on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the po4a package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove po4a

Uninstall po4a And Its Dependencies

To uninstall po4a and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove po4a

Remove po4a Configurations and Data

To remove po4a configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge po4a

Remove po4a configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove po4a configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge po4a

Dependencies

po4a have the following dependencies:

• gettext
• libpod-parser-perl
• libsgmls-perl
• libyaml-tiny-perl
• opensp
• perl

References

• po4a website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install po4a package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.