How To Install ibus-libpinyin.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install ibus-libpinyin.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. ibus-libpinyin.x86_64 is Intelligent Pinyin engine based on libpinyin for IBus

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ibus-libpinyin.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `ibus-libpinyin.x86_64`

It includes a Chinese Pinyin input method and a Chinese ZhuYin (Bopomofo) input method based on libpinyin for IBus.

We can use yum to install ibus-libpinyin.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ibus-libpinyin.x86_64.

Install ibus-libpinyin.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install ibus-libpinyin.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ibus-libpinyin.x86_64

How To Uninstall ibus-libpinyin.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the ibus-libpinyin.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove ibus-libpinyin.x86_64

ibus-libpinyin.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/libexec/ibus-engine-libpinyin
/usr/libexec/ibus-setup-libpinyin
/usr/share/applications/ibus-setup-libbopomofo.desktop
/usr/share/applications/ibus-setup-libpinyin.desktop
/usr/share/doc/ibus-libpinyin-1.6.91
/usr/share/doc/ibus-libpinyin-1.6.91/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/ibus-libpinyin-1.6.91/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/ibus-libpinyin-1.6.91/README
/usr/share/ibus-libpinyin
/usr/share/ibus-libpinyin/base.lua
/usr/share/ibus-libpinyin/db
/usr/share/ibus-libpinyin/db/english.db
/usr/share/ibus-libpinyin/db/strokes.db
/usr/share/ibus-libpinyin/icons
/usr/share/ibus-libpinyin/icons/chinese.svg
/usr/share/ibus-libpinyin/icons/english.svg
/usr/share/ibus-libpinyin/icons/full-punct.svg
/usr/share/ibus-libpinyin/icons/full.svg
/usr/share/ibus-libpinyin/icons/half-punct.svg
/usr/share/ibus-libpinyin/icons/half.svg
/usr/share/ibus-libpinyin/icons/ibus-bopomofo.svg
/usr/share/ibus-libpinyin/icons/ibus-pinyin.svg
/usr/share/ibus-libpinyin/icons/simp-chinese.svg
/usr/share/ibus-libpinyin/icons/trad-chinese.svg
/usr/share/ibus-libpinyin/phrases.txt
/usr/share/ibus-libpinyin/setup
/usr/share/ibus-libpinyin/setup/config.py
/usr/share/ibus-libpinyin/setup/config.pyc
/usr/share/ibus-libpinyin/setup/config.pyo
/usr/share/ibus-libpinyin/setup/dicttreeview.py
/usr/share/ibus-libpinyin/setup/dicttreeview.pyc
/usr/share/ibus-libpinyin/setup/dicttreeview.pyo
/usr/share/ibus-libpinyin/setup/ibus-libpinyin-preferences.ui
/usr/share/ibus-libpinyin/setup/main2.py
/usr/share/ibus-libpinyin/setup/main2.pyc
/usr/share/ibus-libpinyin/setup/main2.pyo
/usr/share/ibus-libpinyin/user.lua
/usr/share/ibus/component/libpinyin.xml
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/ibus-libpinyin.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/ibus-libpinyin.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/ibus-libpinyin.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_HK/LC_MESSAGES/ibus-libpinyin.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/ibus-libpinyin.mo

References

ibus-libpinyin.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ibus-libpinyin.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.