How To Install potool 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 potool on Ubuntu.
What is potool
potool is:
This package contains the filter program ‘potool’, as well as a few helper scripts: poedit - helps editing of po files in your favourite editor postats - prints statistics of how much of a file is translated
There are three methods to install potool 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 potool Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install potool using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install potool
Install potool Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install potool using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install potool
Install potool 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 potool using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install potool
How To Uninstall potool on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the potool package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove potool
Uninstall potool And Its Dependencies
To uninstall potool and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove potool
Remove potool Configurations and Data
To remove potool configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge potool
Remove potool configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove potool configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge potool
Dependencies
potool have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install potool package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.