How To Install gcin on Debian 10

Learn how to install gcin on Debian 10 with this tutorial. gcin is GTK+ based input method for Chinese users

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gcin on Debian 10.

What is gcin

gcin is:

gcin is a GTK+ based input method which focused mainly on Traditional Chinese. However, it is also very useful for Simplified Chinese, Japanese, and many other languages.

To use gcin, the correspondence immodule packages also need to be installed. They are:

  • gcin-gtk2-immodule for GTK2
  • gcin-gtk3-immodule for GTK3
  • gcin-qt5-immodule for Qt5

There are three methods to install gcin on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install gcin Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install gcin using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install gcin

Install gcin Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install gcin using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install gcin

Install gcin Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install gcin using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gcin

How To Uninstall gcin on Debian 10

To uninstall only the gcin package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove gcin

Uninstall gcin And Its Dependencies

To uninstall gcin and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gcin

Remove gcin Configurations and Data

To remove gcin configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge gcin

Remove gcin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove gcin configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gcin

Dependencies

gcin have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gcin package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.