Virtaal

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Virtaal is a graphical translation tool. It is meant to be easy to use and powerful at the same time. Although the initial focus is on software translation (localisation or l10n), we definitely intend it to be useful for several purposes.

Virtaal is built on the powerful API of the Translate Toolkit. “Virtaal” is an Afrikaans play on words meaning “For Language”, but also refers to translation.

Read more about the features in Virtaal, or view the screenshots. You can also download a screencast (33MB, Ogg Theora format) to see some of these features in action.

Learn more about using Virtaal, available shortcuts and some extra tips and tricks for people who want to customise their installation.

Installation

Platform

Instructions

Notes

Windows

Download Virtaal setup.exe

Includes all dependencies

Mac OS X

Download Virtaal .dmg

Beta release. OS X 10.5 and greater

Ubuntu

Translate.org.za Tools PPA

Also available in software center

Fedora

yum install virtaal

Or use the graphical package manager. For older Fedora releases use the custom repo

Mandriva

urpmi virtaal

Or simply use the graphical package manager

Debian Squeeze

apt-get install virtaal

Or simply use the graphical package manager

openSUSE

zypper install virtaal

Or simply use the graphical package manager

Other

Download source .zip or .tar.bz2

Make sure you have all the dependencies including the latest Translate Toolkit

Contact

Contributing

There are many ways of contributing to Virtaal. Join the mailing list or IRC channel to join our effort. You can join our effort to distribute Virtaal by sharing informing with people, writing documentation or packaging for more platforms.

If you would like to contribute to the Virtaal software, you can start by reading the instructions on the following pages: