How To Install libsunpinyin3v5 on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install libsunpinyin3v5 on Debian 9. libsunpinyin3v5 is Simplified Chinese Input Method from SUN (runtime)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libsunpinyin3v5 on Debian 9.

What is libsunpinyin3v5

libsunpinyin3v5 is:

Sunpinyin is a statistical language model (SLM) based input method engine for Simplified Chinese, it features full sentence input.

This package contains the runtime library.

There are three methods to install libsunpinyin3v5 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 libsunpinyin3v5 Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libsunpinyin3v5 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libsunpinyin3v5

Install libsunpinyin3v5 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libsunpinyin3v5 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libsunpinyin3v5

Install libsunpinyin3v5 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 libsunpinyin3v5 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libsunpinyin3v5

How To Uninstall libsunpinyin3v5 on Debian 9

To uninstall only the libsunpinyin3v5 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libsunpinyin3v5

Uninstall libsunpinyin3v5 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libsunpinyin3v5 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libsunpinyin3v5

Remove libsunpinyin3v5 Configurations and Data

To remove libsunpinyin3v5 configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libsunpinyin3v5

Remove libsunpinyin3v5 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libsunpinyin3v5 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libsunpinyin3v5

Dependencies

libsunpinyin3v5 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libsunpinyin3v5 package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.