How To Install ibus on CentOS 8
ibus is Intelligent Input Bus for Linux OS
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ibus on CentOS 8.
What is ibus
IBus means Intelligent Input Bus. It is an input framework for Linux OS.
We can use yum or dnf to install ibus on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ibus.
Install ibus 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 ibus using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install ibus
Install ibus 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 ibus using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install ibus
How To Uninstall ibus on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the ibus package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ibus
ibus Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d
/etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/ibus.conf
/etc/dconf/db/ibus.d
/etc/dconf/db/ibus.d/00-upstream-settings
/etc/dconf/profile/ibus
/usr/bin/ibus
/usr/bin/ibus-daemon
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1a
/usr/lib/.build-id/1a/7f5be71aed835b63ba8503d9c52a9ae040202a
/usr/lib/.build-id/69
/usr/lib/.build-id/69/1e492a4b2c110de50a9b9fb819aa3de2ebbc65
/usr/lib/.build-id/7d
/usr/lib/.build-id/7d/af1cf22cd229626914107694d0e1451d7188f7
/usr/lib/.build-id/ac
/usr/lib/.build-id/ac/7888e407580725fc8bf66d2b30dc165d19c2b4
/usr/lib/.build-id/c9
/usr/lib/.build-id/c9/b57967d24e09f5044b0dfe15d392bb571ac4ab
/usr/lib/.build-id/dc
/usr/lib/.build-id/dc/be6d8efce46281997a6980611c37847cf47f94
/usr/lib/.build-id/e7
/usr/lib/.build-id/e7/f6a6794fcfa2e8a576aabf18f3074c95947a4a
/usr/lib/.build-id/ec
/usr/lib/.build-id/ec/a279df04d4bf804f095a7047189e7cf1def5ea
/usr/lib/.build-id/fd
/usr/lib/.build-id/fd/483039000e17623fd66211b3b14e2a3bdf43f0
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/gi/overrides/IBus.py
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/gi/overrides/__pycache__/IBus.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/gi/overrides/__pycache__/IBus.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/libexec/ibus-dconf
/usr/libexec/ibus-engine-simple
/usr/libexec/ibus-extension-gtk3
/usr/libexec/ibus-portal
/usr/libexec/ibus-ui-emojier
/usr/libexec/ibus-ui-gtk3
/usr/libexec/ibus-x11
/usr/share/GConf/gsettings/ibus.convert
/usr/share/applications/org.freedesktop.IBus.Panel.Emojier.desktop
/usr/share/applications/org.freedesktop.IBus.Panel.Extension.Gtk3.desktop
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/ibus.bash
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.IBus.service
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.portal.IBus.service
/usr/share/doc/ibus
/usr/share/doc/ibus/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/ibus/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/ibus/README
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.freedesktop.ibus.gschema.xml
/usr/share/ibus
/usr/share/ibus/component
/usr/share/ibus/component/dconf.xml
/usr/share/ibus/component/gtkextension.xml
/usr/share/ibus/component/gtkpanel.xml
/usr/share/ibus/component/simple.xml
/usr/share/ibus/dicts
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-af.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-am.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-ar.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-as.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-ast.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-az.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-be.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-bg.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-bn.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-br.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-bs.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-ca.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-ccp.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-chr.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-cs.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-cy.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-da.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-de.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-de_CH.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-el.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-en.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-en_001.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-en_AU.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-en_CA.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-en_GB.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-es.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-es_419.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-es_MX.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-es_US.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-et.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-eu.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-fa.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-fi.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-fil.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-fo.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-fr.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-fr_CA.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-ga.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-gd.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-gl.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-gu.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-he.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-hi.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-hr.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-hu.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-hy.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-id.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-is.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-it.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-ja.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-ka.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-kab.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-kk.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-km.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-kn.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-ko.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-ky.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-lo.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-lt.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-lv.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-mk.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-ml.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-mn.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-mr.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-ms.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-my.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-nb.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-ne.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-nl.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-nn.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-or.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-pa.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-pl.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-ps.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-pt.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-pt_PT.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-ro.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-root.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-ru.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-sd.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-si.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-sk.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-sl.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-sq.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-sr.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-sr_Cyrl_BA.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-sr_Latn.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-sv.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-sw.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-ta.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-te.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-th.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-tk.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-to.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-tr.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-uk.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-ur.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-uz.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-vi.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-yue.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-yue_Hans.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-zh.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-zh_Hant.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-zh_Hant_HK.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-zu.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/unicode-blocks.dict
/usr/share/ibus/dicts/unicode-names.dict
/usr/share/ibus/engine
/usr/share/ibus/keymaps
/usr/share/ibus/keymaps/common
/usr/share/ibus/keymaps/in
/usr/share/ibus/keymaps/jp
/usr/share/ibus/keymaps/kr
/usr/share/ibus/keymaps/modifiers
/usr/share/ibus/keymaps/us
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/ibus-keyboard.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/ibus-keyboard.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/ibus-keyboard.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/ibus-keyboard.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/ibus-keyboard.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/ibus-engine.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/ibus-keyboard.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/ibus-setup.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/ibus.svg
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/ibus10.mo
/usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/ibus10.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/ibus10.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn/LC_MESSAGES/ibus10.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn_IN/LC_MESSAGES/ibus10.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/ibus10.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/ibus10.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/ibus10.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/ibus10.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/ibus10.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/ibus10.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/ibus10.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/ibus10.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/ibus10.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/ibus10.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/ibus10.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/ibus10.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/ibus10.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/ibus10.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/ibus10.mo
/usr/share/locale/ia/LC_MESSAGES/ibus10.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/ibus10.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/ibus10.mo
/usr/share/locale/kn/LC_MESSAGES/ibus10.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/ibus10.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/ibus10.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/ibus10.mo
/usr/share/locale/mn/LC_MESSAGES/ibus10.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/ibus10.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/ibus10.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/ibus10.mo
/usr/share/locale/or/LC_MESSAGES/ibus10.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/ibus10.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/ibus10.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/ibus10.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/ibus10.mo
/usr/share/locale/sq/LC_MESSAGES/ibus10.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/ibus10.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/ibus10.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/ibus10.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/ibus10.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/ibus10.mo
/usr/share/locale/tg/LC_MESSAGES/ibus10.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/ibus10.mo
/usr/share/locale/ur/LC_MESSAGES/ibus10.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/ibus10.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/ibus10.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_HK/LC_MESSAGES/ibus10.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/ibus10.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/ibus-daemon.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ibus.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/00-upstream-settings.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/ibus.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/ibus.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/ibus-emoji.7.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ibus on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.