How To Install fcitx-qt5 on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fcitx-qt5 on CentOS 8.
What is fcitx-qt5
This package provides Fcitx Qt5 input context.
We can use yum or dnf to install fcitx-qt5 on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fcitx-qt5.
Install fcitx-qt5 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-qt5 using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install fcitx-qt5
Install fcitx-qt5 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-qt5 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install fcitx-qt5
How To Uninstall fcitx-qt5 on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the fcitx-qt5 package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove fcitx-qt5
fcitx-qt5 Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/47
/usr/lib/.build-id/47/6c3a7c5034dca4347f855e68d302e9bf93468c
/usr/lib/.build-id/71
/usr/lib/.build-id/71/49d25cf0ce0d990b979701267232a94706a0bb
/usr/lib/.build-id/80
/usr/lib/.build-id/80/ee3d05a191bfbf28047209dc7e908db1163e07
/usr/lib/.build-id/ad
/usr/lib/.build-id/ad/de8d56f82487bf773640c77b9bc01123e0358e
/usr/lib/.build-id/de
/usr/lib/.build-id/de/2493331b43b45d27d6c349c41d193f446a8d35
/usr/lib64/fcitx/libexec/fcitx-qt5-gui-wrapper
/usr/lib64/fcitx/qt
/usr/lib64/fcitx/qt/libfcitx-quickphrase-editor5.so
/usr/lib64/libFcitxQt5DBusAddons.so.1
/usr/lib64/libFcitxQt5DBusAddons.so.1.0
/usr/lib64/libFcitxQt5WidgetsAddons.so.1
/usr/lib64/libFcitxQt5WidgetsAddons.so.1.0
/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/platforminputcontexts/libfcitxplatforminputcontextplugin.so
/usr/share/doc/fcitx-qt5
/usr/share/doc/fcitx-qt5/README
/usr/share/licenses/fcitx-qt5
/usr/share/licenses/fcitx-qt5/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/fcitx-qt5/COPYING.BSD
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/fcitx-qt5.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/fcitx-qt5.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/fcitx-qt5.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/fcitx-qt5.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/fcitx-qt5.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/fcitx-qt5.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/fcitx-qt5.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/fcitx-qt5.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/fcitx-qt5.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/fcitx-qt5.mo
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fcitx-qt5 on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.