How To Install ibus-pinyin on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install ibus-pinyin in Fedora 36. ibus-pinyin is The Chinese Pinyin and Bopomofo engines for IBus input platform

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ibus-pinyin on Fedora 36.

What is ibus-pinyin

The Chinese Pinyin and Bopomofo input methods for IBus platform.

We can use yum or dnf to install ibus-pinyin on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ibus-pinyin.

Install ibus-pinyin on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install ibus-pinyin

Install ibus-pinyin on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install ibus-pinyin using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ibus-pinyin

How To Uninstall ibus-pinyin on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the ibus-pinyin package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove ibus-pinyin

ibus-pinyin Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/58
/usr/lib/.build-id/58/273eb376a14d780481774f34410e9793c5c62a
/usr/libexec/ibus-engine-pinyin
/usr/libexec/ibus-setup-pinyin
/usr/share/applications/ibus-setup-bopomofo.desktop
/usr/share/applications/ibus-setup-pinyin.desktop
/usr/share/doc/ibus-pinyin
/usr/share/doc/ibus-pinyin/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/ibus-pinyin/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/ibus-pinyin/README
/usr/share/ibus-pinyin
/usr/share/ibus-pinyin/base.lua
/usr/share/ibus-pinyin/db
/usr/share/ibus-pinyin/db/english.db
/usr/share/ibus-pinyin/icons
/usr/share/ibus-pinyin/icons/chinese.svg
/usr/share/ibus-pinyin/icons/english.svg
/usr/share/ibus-pinyin/icons/full-punct.svg
/usr/share/ibus-pinyin/icons/full.svg
/usr/share/ibus-pinyin/icons/half-punct.svg
/usr/share/ibus-pinyin/icons/half.svg
/usr/share/ibus-pinyin/icons/ibus-bopomofo.svg
/usr/share/ibus-pinyin/icons/ibus-pinyin.svg
/usr/share/ibus-pinyin/icons/simp-chinese.svg
/usr/share/ibus-pinyin/icons/trad-chinese.svg
/usr/share/ibus-pinyin/phrases.txt
/usr/share/ibus-pinyin/setup
/usr/share/ibus-pinyin/setup/__pycache__
/usr/share/ibus-pinyin/setup/__pycache__/main.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/share/ibus-pinyin/setup/__pycache__/main.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/share/ibus-pinyin/setup/__pycache__/version.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/share/ibus-pinyin/setup/__pycache__/version.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/share/ibus-pinyin/setup/ibus-pinyin-preferences.ui
/usr/share/ibus-pinyin/setup/main.py
/usr/share/ibus-pinyin/setup/version.py
/usr/share/ibus/component/pinyin.xml
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/ibus-pinyin.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/ibus-pinyin.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/ibus-pinyin.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_HK/LC_MESSAGES/ibus-pinyin.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/ibus-pinyin.mo

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ibus-pinyin on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).