How To Install cconv on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install cconv on Ubuntu 22.04. cconv is Simplified/Traditional Chinese conversion tool

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cconv on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is cconv

cconv is:

The Chinese national GB standard defines a basic set of (around 6,000) characters for use in Simplified Chinese writing; this excludes many of the characters in the Taiwanese industry standard for Traditional Chinese called Big5 (around 13,000 characters in the basic set). However, Unicode is a superset of both (with the duplication removed).

This tool is used for converting a UTF-8 string which contains both Simplified and Traditional Chinese characters directly into a single Chinese character set.

There are three methods to install cconv on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install cconv Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install cconv

Install cconv Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install cconv

Install cconv 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install cconv

How To Uninstall cconv on Ubuntu 22.04

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

sudo apt-get remove cconv

Uninstall cconv And Its Dependencies

To uninstall cconv and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove cconv

Remove cconv Configurations and Data

To remove cconv configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge cconv

Remove cconv configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cconv

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cconv package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.