How To Install emacs-mozc on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install emacs-mozc
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is emacs-mozc
emacs-mozc is:
Mozc is a Japanese Input Method Editor (IME) designed for multi-platform such as Chromium OS, Windows, Mac and Linux.
This package provides the elisp files to run mozc with GNU Emacs.
This open-source project originates from Google Japanese Input.
There are three methods to install emacs-mozc
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install emacs-mozc Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install emacs-mozc
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install emacs-mozc
Install emacs-mozc Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install emacs-mozc
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install emacs-mozc
Install emacs-mozc 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 emacs-mozc
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install emacs-mozc
How To Uninstall emacs-mozc on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the emacs-mozc
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove emacs-mozc
Uninstall emacs-mozc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall emacs-mozc
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove emacs-mozc
Remove emacs-mozc Configurations and Data
To remove emacs-mozc
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge emacs-mozc
Remove emacs-mozc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove emacs-mozc
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge emacs-mozc
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install emacs-mozc
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.