xgettext not installed and noob question.

[bozeyman9000]

i am getting an error telling me xgettext is not installed and i am a bit confused as to what "meson build --prefix=/usr" means. mostly the "--prefix=/usr" Is this a line i must edit to my own computer or is this simply telling the code/computer to install into the "usr" folder.

this is the error im getting

po/meson.build:1:5: ERROR: Can not do gettext because xgettext is not installed.

thanks in advance.

[bozeyman9000]

so with a quick google search i found that when i was running

apt-get install xgettext

I was getting a return of no packages found because the name of the package is just gettext.

a quick run of apt-get install gettext fixed my issue and my other question was answered for me.

[babluboy]

Many thanks for opening this ticket and putting forward this solution. Gettext is present by default on Elementary OS and Ubuntu so I never discover this dependency. What distro are you on?

I will keep this ticket open to remind me to mention gettext as a dependency for installation.

[bozeyman9000]

I am using the most recent distribution of kali linux.
and am using the official repositories

[tokaalmighty91]

same issue
Can not do gettext because xgettext is not installed.
I'm on pixelbook, Penguin