How To Install rime-prelude on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rime-prelude on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is rime-prelude
rime-prelude is:
RIME is the acronym of Rime Input Method Engine.
RIME is a lightweight, extensible input method engine supporting various input schematas including glyph-based input methods, romanization-based input methods as well as those for Chinese dialects. It has the ability to compose phrases and sentences intelligently and provide very accurate traditional Chinese output. RIME’s cross-platform core library is written in C++, and can work consistently on different platforms with OS-specific wrappers.
This package provides the basic configuration files for RIME.
There are three methods to install rime-prelude on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install rime-prelude Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install rime-prelude using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install rime-prelude
Install rime-prelude Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install rime-prelude using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install rime-prelude
Install rime-prelude 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 rime-prelude using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install rime-prelude
How To Uninstall rime-prelude on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the rime-prelude package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove rime-prelude
Uninstall rime-prelude And Its Dependencies
To uninstall rime-prelude and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove rime-prelude
Remove rime-prelude Configurations and Data
To remove rime-prelude configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge rime-prelude
Remove rime-prelude configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove rime-prelude configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge rime-prelude
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rime-prelude package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
