How To Install fcitx-pinyin on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fcitx-pinyin on CentOS 8.
What is fcitx-pinyin
This package contains pinyin engine for Fcitx.
We can use yum or dnf to install fcitx-pinyin on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fcitx-pinyin.
Install fcitx-pinyin 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-pinyin using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install fcitx-pinyin
Install fcitx-pinyin 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-pinyin using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install fcitx-pinyin
How To Uninstall fcitx-pinyin on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the fcitx-pinyin package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove fcitx-pinyin
fcitx-pinyin Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c6
/usr/lib/.build-id/c6/c08ad233e1ae5918a39972d5aceb379e262c1a
/usr/lib/.build-id/f2
/usr/lib/.build-id/f2/22e737ecc389aa139d82d48d44925f15ff43fa
/usr/lib64/fcitx/fcitx-pinyin-enhance.so
/usr/lib64/fcitx/fcitx-pinyin.so
/usr/share/fcitx/addon/fcitx-pinyin-enhance.conf
/usr/share/fcitx/addon/fcitx-pinyin.conf
/usr/share/fcitx/configdesc/fcitx-pinyin-enhance.desc
/usr/share/fcitx/configdesc/fcitx-pinyin.desc
/usr/share/fcitx/imicon/pinyin.png
/usr/share/fcitx/imicon/shuangpin.png
/usr/share/fcitx/inputmethod/pinyin.conf
/usr/share/fcitx/inputmethod/shuangpin.conf
/usr/share/fcitx/pinyin
/usr/share/fcitx/pinyin/pySym.mb
/usr/share/fcitx/pinyin/pybase.mb
/usr/share/fcitx/pinyin/pyphrase.mb
/usr/share/fcitx/pinyin/sp.dat
/usr/share/fcitx/py-enhance
/usr/share/fcitx/py-enhance/py_stroke.mb
/usr/share/fcitx/py-enhance/py_table.mb
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fcitx-pinyin on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.