How To Install maliit-keyboard on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install maliit-keyboard on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is maliit-keyboard
maliit-keyboard is:
Maliit provides a flexible and cross-platform input method framework for mobile and embedded text input. It has a plugin-based client-server architecture where applications act as clients and communicate with the Maliit server via toolkit-specific input context plugins.
This package provides the Maliit reference on-screen keyboard.
There are three methods to install maliit-keyboard 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-keyboard 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-keyboard using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install maliit-keyboard
Install maliit-keyboard Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install maliit-keyboard using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install maliit-keyboard
Install maliit-keyboard 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-keyboard using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install maliit-keyboard
How To Uninstall maliit-keyboard on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the maliit-keyboard package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove maliit-keyboard
Uninstall maliit-keyboard And Its Dependencies
To uninstall maliit-keyboard and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove maliit-keyboard
Remove maliit-keyboard Configurations and Data
To remove maliit-keyboard configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge maliit-keyboard
Remove maliit-keyboard configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove maliit-keyboard configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge maliit-keyboard
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install maliit-keyboard package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
