How To Install fcitx-qw on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fcitx-qw on CentOS 8.
What is fcitx-qw
This package contains Quwei engine for Fcitx.
We can use yum or dnf to install fcitx-qw on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fcitx-qw.
Install fcitx-qw 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-qw using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install fcitx-qw
Install fcitx-qw 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-qw using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install fcitx-qw
How To Uninstall fcitx-qw on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the fcitx-qw package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove fcitx-qw
fcitx-qw Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2e
/usr/lib/.build-id/2e/cc4fac01bd56562376f9168f49b19ed0adaaaf
/usr/lib64/fcitx/fcitx-qw.so
/usr/share/fcitx/addon/fcitx-qw.conf
/usr/share/fcitx/inputmethod/qw.conf
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fcitx-qw on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.