How To Install maliit-framework on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install maliit-framework
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is maliit-framework
maliit-framework is:
Maliit provides a flexible and cross-platform input method framework. It has a plugin-based client-server architecture where applications act as clients and communicate with the Maliit server via input context plugins. The communication link currently uses D-Bus. Maliit is an open source framework (LGPL 2) with open source plugins (BSD).
There are three methods to install maliit-framework
on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install maliit-framework Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install maliit-framework
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install maliit-framework
Install maliit-framework Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install maliit-framework
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install maliit-framework
Install maliit-framework 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install maliit-framework
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install maliit-framework
How To Uninstall maliit-framework on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the maliit-framework
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove maliit-framework
Uninstall maliit-framework And Its Dependencies
To uninstall maliit-framework
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove maliit-framework
Remove maliit-framework Configurations and Data
To remove maliit-framework
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge maliit-framework
Remove maliit-framework configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove maliit-framework
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge maliit-framework
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install maliit-framework
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.