How To Install fcitx-ui-light on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fcitx-ui-light on CentOS 8.
What is fcitx-ui-light
Light UI is a light-weight user interface for fcitx.
We can use yum or dnf to install fcitx-ui-light on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fcitx-ui-light.
Install fcitx-ui-light 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-ui-light using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install fcitx-ui-light
Install fcitx-ui-light 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-ui-light using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install fcitx-ui-light
How To Uninstall fcitx-ui-light on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the fcitx-ui-light package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove fcitx-ui-light
fcitx-ui-light Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/34
/usr/lib/.build-id/34/8b832f347c60a35c4a8caf9a1209f143375ccb
/usr/lib64/fcitx/fcitx-light-ui.so
/usr/share/applications/fcitx-light.desktop
/usr/share/doc/fcitx-ui-light
/usr/share/doc/fcitx-ui-light/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/fcitx-ui-light/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/fcitx-ui-light/README
/usr/share/fcitx/addon/fcitx-light-ui.conf
/usr/share/fcitx/configdesc/fcitx-light-ui.desc
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/fcitx-light-ui.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/fcitx-light-ui.mo
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fcitx-ui-light on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.