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+# SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE.
+# Copyright (C) YEAR Home Manager contributors
+# This file is distributed under the same license as the Home Manager package.
+# FIRST AUTHOR <EMAIL@ADDRESS>, YEAR.
+#
+msgid ""
+msgstr ""
+"Project-Id-Version: Home Manager\n"
+"Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/issues\n"
+"POT-Creation-Date: 2024-04-17 23:19+0200\n"
+"PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n"
+"Last-Translator: Automatically generated\n"
+"Language-Team: none\n"
+"Language: ar\n"
+"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
+"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n"
+"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
+"Plural-Forms: nplurals=6; plural=n==0 ? 0 : n==1 ? 1 : n==2 ? 2 : n%100>=3 "
+"&& n%100<=10 ? 3 : n%100>=11 ? 4 : 5;\n"
+
+#. translators: For example: "home-manager: missing argument for --cores"
+#: home-manager/home-manager:16
+msgid "%s: missing argument for %s"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: home-manager/home-manager:64
+msgid "No configuration file found at %s"
+msgstr ""
+
+#. translators: The first '%s' specifier will be replaced by either
+#. 'home.nix' or 'flake.nix'.
+#: home-manager/home-manager:81 home-manager/home-manager:85
+#: home-manager/home-manager:184
+msgid ""
+"Keeping your Home Manager %s in %s is deprecated,\n"
+"please move it to %s"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: home-manager/home-manager:92
+msgid "No configuration file found. Please create one at %s"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: home-manager/home-manager:107
+msgid "Home Manager not found at %s."
+msgstr ""
+
+#. translators: This message will be seen by very few users that likely are familiar with English. So feel free to leave this untranslated.
+#: home-manager/home-manager:115
+msgid ""
+"The fallback Home Manager path %s has been deprecated and a file/directory "
+"was found there."
+msgstr ""
+
+#. translators: This message will be seen by very few users that likely are familiar with English. So feel free to leave this untranslated.
+#: home-manager/home-manager:118
+msgid ""
+"To remove this warning, do one of the following.\n"
+"\n"
+"1. Explicitly tell Home Manager to use the path, for example by adding\n"
+"\n"
+"     { programs.home-manager.path = \"%s\"; }\n"
+"\n"
+"   to your configuration.\n"
+"\n"
+"   If you import Home Manager directly, you can use the `path` parameter\n"
+"\n"
+"     pkgs.callPackage /path/to/home-manager-package { path = \"%s\"; }\n"
+"\n"
+"   when calling the Home Manager package.\n"
+"\n"
+"2. Remove the deprecated path.\n"
+"\n"
+"     $ rm -r \"%s\""
+msgstr ""
+
+#: home-manager/home-manager:146
+msgid "Sanity checking Nix"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: home-manager/home-manager:166
+msgid "Could not find suitable profile directory, tried %s and %s"
+msgstr ""
+
+#. translators: Here "flake" is a noun that refers to the Nix Flakes feature.
+#: home-manager/home-manager:221
+msgid "Can't inspect options of a flake configuration"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: home-manager/home-manager:296 home-manager/home-manager:319
+#: home-manager/home-manager:1051
+msgid "%s: unknown option '%s'"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: home-manager/home-manager:301 home-manager/home-manager:1052
+msgid "Run '%s --help' for usage help"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: home-manager/home-manager:327 home-manager/home-manager:431
+msgid "The file %s already exists, leaving it unchanged..."
+msgstr ""
+
+#: home-manager/home-manager:329 home-manager/home-manager:433
+msgid "Creating %s..."
+msgstr ""
+
+#: home-manager/home-manager:475
+msgid "Creating initial Home Manager generation..."
+msgstr ""
+
+#. translators: The "%s" specifier will be replaced by a file path.
+#: home-manager/home-manager:480
+msgid ""
+"All done! The home-manager tool should now be installed and you can edit\n"
+"\n"
+"    %s\n"
+"\n"
+"to configure Home Manager. Run 'man home-configuration.nix' to\n"
+"see all available options."
+msgstr ""
+
+#. translators: The "%s" specifier will be replaced by a URL.
+#: home-manager/home-manager:485
+msgid ""
+"Uh oh, the installation failed! Please create an issue at\n"
+"\n"
+"    %s\n"
+"\n"
+"if the error seems to be the fault of Home Manager."
+msgstr ""
+
+#. translators: Here "flake" is a noun that refers to the Nix Flakes feature.
+#: home-manager/home-manager:496
+msgid "Can't instantiate a flake configuration"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: home-manager/home-manager:572
+msgid ""
+"There is %d unread and relevant news item.\n"
+"Read it by running the command \"%s news\"."
+msgid_plural ""
+"There are %d unread and relevant news items.\n"
+"Read them by running the command \"%s news\"."
+msgstr[0] ""
+msgstr[1] ""
+
+#: home-manager/home-manager:586
+msgid "Unknown \"news.display\" setting \"%s\"."
+msgstr ""
+
+#: home-manager/home-manager:594
+#, sh-format
+msgid "Please set the $EDITOR or $VISUAL environment variable"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: home-manager/home-manager:612
+msgid "Cannot run build in read-only directory"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: home-manager/home-manager:693
+msgid "No generation with ID %s"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: home-manager/home-manager:695
+msgid "Cannot remove the current generation %s"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: home-manager/home-manager:697
+msgid "Removing generation %s"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: home-manager/home-manager:718
+msgid "No generations to expire"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: home-manager/home-manager:729
+msgid "No home-manager packages seem to be installed."
+msgstr ""
+
+#: home-manager/home-manager:811
+msgid "Unknown argument %s"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: home-manager/home-manager:835
+msgid "This will remove Home Manager from your system."
+msgstr ""
+
+#: home-manager/home-manager:838
+msgid "This is a dry run, nothing will actually be uninstalled."
+msgstr ""
+
+#: home-manager/home-manager:842
+msgid "Really uninstall Home Manager?"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: home-manager/home-manager:848
+msgid "Switching to empty Home Manager configuration..."
+msgstr ""
+
+#: home-manager/home-manager:863
+msgid "Yay!"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: home-manager/home-manager:868
+msgid "Home Manager is uninstalled but your home.nix is left untouched."
+msgstr ""
+
+#: home-manager/home-manager:1091
+msgid "expire-generations expects one argument, got %d."
+msgstr ""
+
+#: home-manager/home-manager:1113
+msgid "Unknown command: %s"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: home-manager/install.nix:18
+msgid "This derivation is not buildable, please run it using nix-shell."
+msgstr ""