How To Install fcitx-gtk3 on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fcitx-gtk3 on CentOS 8.
What is fcitx-gtk3
This package contains Fcitx IM module for gtk3.
We can use yum or dnf to install fcitx-gtk3 on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fcitx-gtk3.
Install fcitx-gtk3 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-gtk3 using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install fcitx-gtk3
Install fcitx-gtk3 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-gtk3 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install fcitx-gtk3
How To Uninstall fcitx-gtk3 on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the fcitx-gtk3 package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove fcitx-gtk3
fcitx-gtk3 Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/eb
/usr/lib/.build-id/eb/872b7887728d08e148579e3f55b6a1a72b7899
/usr/lib64/gtk-3.0/3.0.0/immodules/im-fcitx.so
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fcitx-gtk3 on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.