How To Install fcitx-fbterm on CentOS 8

fcitx-fbterm is Fbterm Support for Fcitx

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fcitx-fbterm on CentOS 8.

What is fcitx-fbterm

Fcitx-fbterm is a Wrapper for Fcitx in fbterm, a fast Framebuffer based terminal emulator.

We can use yum or dnf to install fcitx-fbterm on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fcitx-fbterm.

Install fcitx-fbterm 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-fbterm using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fcitx-fbterm

Install fcitx-fbterm 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-fbterm using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fcitx-fbterm

How To Uninstall fcitx-fbterm on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the fcitx-fbterm package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove fcitx-fbterm

fcitx-fbterm Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/fcitx-fbterm
/usr/bin/fcitx-fbterm-helper
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f0
/usr/lib/.build-id/f0/a3d572cc2156cd395570ea284b409409713cfe
/usr/share/doc/fcitx-fbterm
/usr/share/doc/fcitx-fbterm/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/fcitx-fbterm/README
/usr/share/licenses/fcitx-fbterm
/usr/share/licenses/fcitx-fbterm/COPYING

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fcitx-fbterm on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.