How To Install sunpinyin on Fedora 34

sunpinyin is A statistical language model based Chinese input method engine A statistical language model based Chinese input method engine

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install sunpinyin on Fedora 34.

What is sunpinyin

Sunpinyin is an input method engine for Simplified Chinese. It is an SLM based IM engine, and features full sentence input. SunPinyin has been ported to various input method platforms and operating systems. The 2.0 release currently supports iBus, XIM, and Mac OS X. sunpinyin 3.0.0 0.5.20190805git.fc34 x86_64 382 k sunpinyin-3.0.0-0.5.20190805git.fc34.src.rpm fedora A statistical language model based Chinese input method engine http LGPLv2 or CDDL Sunpinyin is an input method engine for Simplified Chinese. It is an SLM based IM engine, and features full sentence input. SunPinyin has been ported to various input method platforms and operating systems. The 2.0 release currently supports iBus, XIM, and Mac OS X.

We can use yum or dnf to install sunpinyin on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install sunpinyin.

Install sunpinyin on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install sunpinyin using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install sunpinyin

Install sunpinyin on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install sunpinyin using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install sunpinyin

How To Uninstall sunpinyin on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove sunpinyin

sunpinyin Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/25
/usr/lib/.build-id/25/0af715358e8c85a3ad20364bf2d8e4401fb8af
/usr/lib64/libsunpinyin.so.3
/usr/lib64/libsunpinyin.so.3.0
/usr/share/doc/sunpinyin/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/sunpinyin/README
/usr/share/doc/sunpinyin/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/sunpinyin
/usr/share/licenses/sunpinyin/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/sunpinyin/LGPL.LICENSE
/usr/share/licenses/sunpinyin/OPENSOLARIS.LICENSE
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/be
/usr/lib/.build-id/be/5cda93e5ba123d8c628fba954e68ed82a5ded5
/usr/lib/libsunpinyin.so.3
/usr/lib/libsunpinyin.so.3.0
/usr/share/doc/sunpinyin/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/sunpinyin/README
/usr/share/doc/sunpinyin/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/sunpinyin
/usr/share/licenses/sunpinyin/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/sunpinyin/LGPL.LICENSE
/usr/share/licenses/sunpinyin/OPENSOLARIS.LICENSE

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install sunpinyin on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.