How To Install iok on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install iok
on Debian 9.
What is iok
iok is:
It shows onscreen keyboard for 12 Indian languages. The languages are - Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, Malayalam, Punjabi, Oriya, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu.
Using drop down menu you can select any of above supported Indian language. Drop down menu listing depends on available inscript keymaps at location /usr/share/m17n/. You can then start directly clicking on keys appearing in iok graphical interface. It will not only show you keyvalues (characters) for English keys on your QWERTY keyboard from selected inscript keymap but also allows you to send those characters to currently active window.
There are three methods to install iok
on Debian 9. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install iok Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install iok
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install iok
Install iok Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install iok
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install iok
Install iok Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install iok
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install iok
How To Uninstall iok on Debian 9
To uninstall only the iok
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove iok
Uninstall iok And Its Dependencies
To uninstall iok
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove iok
Remove iok Configurations and Data
To remove iok
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge iok
Remove iok configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove iok
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge iok
Dependencies
iok have the following dependencies:
- libatk1.0-0
- libc6
- libcairo-gobject2
- libcairo2
- libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk-3-0
- libpango-1.0-0
- libpangocairo-1.0-0
- libunique-3.0-0
- libx11-6
- libxml2
- libxtst6
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install iok
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.