How To Install fcitx-gtk2 on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fcitx-gtk2 on CentOS 8.
What is fcitx-gtk2
This package contains Fcitx IM module for gtk2.
We can use yum or dnf to install fcitx-gtk2 on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fcitx-gtk2.
Install fcitx-gtk2 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-gtk2 using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install fcitx-gtk2
Install fcitx-gtk2 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-gtk2 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install fcitx-gtk2
How To Uninstall fcitx-gtk2 on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the fcitx-gtk2 package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove fcitx-gtk2
fcitx-gtk2 Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f6
/usr/lib/.build-id/f6/41966b21e71b17ae14eebe20833ec61d45c563
/usr/lib64/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/immodules/im-fcitx.so
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fcitx-gtk2 on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.