How To Install fcitx-unikey on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fcitx-unikey on CentOS 8.
What is fcitx-unikey
A Vietnamese engine for Fcitx that uses Unikey.
We can use yum or dnf to install fcitx-unikey on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fcitx-unikey.
Install fcitx-unikey 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-unikey using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install fcitx-unikey
Install fcitx-unikey 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-unikey using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install fcitx-unikey
How To Uninstall fcitx-unikey on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the fcitx-unikey package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove fcitx-unikey
fcitx-unikey Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1d
/usr/lib/.build-id/1d/2242480ce1a240b5b8c9081160e77f09f9a7d9
/usr/lib/.build-id/83
/usr/lib/.build-id/83/2ac0ad3309c183caa1d179ee924707d64ec6df
/usr/lib64/fcitx/fcitx-unikey.so
/usr/lib64/fcitx/qt/libfcitx-unikey-macro-editor.so
/usr/share/doc/fcitx-unikey
/usr/share/doc/fcitx-unikey/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/fcitx-unikey/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/fcitx-unikey/README
/usr/share/fcitx/addon/fcitx-unikey.conf
/usr/share/fcitx/configdesc/fcitx-unikey.desc
/usr/share/fcitx/imicon/unikey.png
/usr/share/fcitx/inputmethod/unikey.conf
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/fcitx-unikey.png
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/fcitx-unikey.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/fcitx-unikey.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/fcitx-unikey.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/fcitx-unikey.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/fcitx-unikey.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/fcitx-unikey.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/fcitx-unikey.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/fcitx-unikey.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/fcitx-unikey.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/fcitx-unikey.mo
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fcitx-unikey on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.