How To Install fcitx-chewing on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fcitx-chewing on CentOS 8.
What is fcitx-chewing
Fcitx-chewing is a Chewing Wrapper for Fcitx. Chewing is a set of free intelligent Chinese Phonetic IME.
We can use yum or dnf to install fcitx-chewing on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fcitx-chewing.
Install fcitx-chewing on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install fcitx-chewing using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install fcitx-chewing
Install fcitx-chewing on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install fcitx-chewing using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install fcitx-chewing
How To Uninstall fcitx-chewing on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the fcitx-chewing package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove fcitx-chewing
fcitx-chewing Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/54
/usr/lib/.build-id/54/e1e9ab24e42f2ddcdf77e7f1ce60b6b7e26e9f
/usr/lib64/fcitx/fcitx-chewing.so
/usr/share/doc/fcitx-chewing
/usr/share/doc/fcitx-chewing/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/fcitx-chewing/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/fcitx-chewing/README
/usr/share/fcitx/addon/fcitx-chewing.conf
/usr/share/fcitx/configdesc/fcitx-chewing.desc
/usr/share/fcitx/imicon/chewing.png
/usr/share/fcitx/inputmethod/chewing.conf
/usr/share/fcitx/skin/classic/chewing.png
/usr/share/fcitx/skin/dark/chewing.png
/usr/share/fcitx/skin/default/chewing.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/fcitx-chewing.png
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/fcitx-chewing.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/fcitx-chewing.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/fcitx-chewing.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/fcitx-chewing.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/fcitx-chewing.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/fcitx-chewing.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/fcitx-chewing.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/fcitx-chewing.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/fcitx-chewing.mo
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fcitx-chewing on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.