Django translation: can't find msguniq

Question

I would like to do the translation inside Django application.

I was following the this tutorial but I run into problems.

After I run the code

python manage.py makemessages -l 'de'

I get the error

CommandError: Can't find msguniq. Make sure you have GNU gettext tools 0.15 or newer installed.

The weird thing is, that I have the gettext already installed

Warning: gettext 0.19.8.1 is already installed and up-to-date
To reinstall 0.19.8.1, run `brew reinstall gettext`

I have the settings set as:

# Translations
# Provide a lists of languages which your site supports.
LANGUAGES = (
    ('en', _('English')),
    ('de', _('German')),
)
# Set the default language for your site.
LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en'
# Tell Django where the project's translation files should be.
LOCALE_PATHS = (
    os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'locale'),
)
print(LOCALE_PATHS)

MIDDLEWARE = [
    'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.locale.LocaleMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
]

Do anyone know what could go wrong?

Answer 1

Have you tried using django-admin:

django-admin makemessages -l de

Do you have in symlinked?

brew link gettext --force

Also, when I installed it on brew, there were a few extra steps. Did you do those?

• I'm updating .zshrc, but if you use bash, it would be, say, .bashrc

If you need to have this software first in your PATH run: echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/gettext/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc

For compilers to find this software you may need to set: LDFLAGS: -L/usr/local/opt/gettext/lib CPPFLAGS: -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include export LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/opt/gettext/lib export CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include

Answer 2

Check if you can run msguniq manually:

$ msguniq --help

If that gives you a command not found error, ensure that your PATH environment variable is set correctly for brew.

Answer 3

Have you tried the command without the quotes around the language?

python manage.py makemessages -l de

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