Django translation: can't find msguniq

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?

Solution

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