How To Install python-sunpinyin on Debian 10

Learn how to install python-sunpinyin on Debian 10 with this tutorial. python-sunpinyin is Simplified Chinese Input Method from SUN (Python binding)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-sunpinyin on Debian 10.

What is python-sunpinyin

python-sunpinyin is:

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

This package contains the Python binding of sunpinyin.

There are three methods to install python-sunpinyin on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install python-sunpinyin Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install python-sunpinyin

Install python-sunpinyin Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install python-sunpinyin

Install python-sunpinyin 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 python-sunpinyin using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install python-sunpinyin

How To Uninstall python-sunpinyin on Debian 10

To uninstall only the python-sunpinyin package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove python-sunpinyin

Uninstall python-sunpinyin And Its Dependencies

To uninstall python-sunpinyin and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-sunpinyin

Remove python-sunpinyin Configurations and Data

To remove python-sunpinyin configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge python-sunpinyin

Remove python-sunpinyin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-sunpinyin

Dependencies

python-sunpinyin have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-sunpinyin package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.