How To Install fcitx-ui-light on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fcitx-ui-light on Debian 9.
What is fcitx-ui-light
fcitx-ui-light is:
fcitx-ui-light is a very light weight UI for Fcitx, using only xlibs and xft. It is directly inherited from the UI code base of Fcitx 3.x series.
This UI is intended to work on all X11 environment with minimal dependencies, so it can scale to more situations where none of Cairo, Pango or QT is available.
There are three methods to install fcitx-ui-light on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install fcitx-ui-light Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install fcitx-ui-light using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fcitx-ui-light
Install fcitx-ui-light Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fcitx-ui-light using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fcitx-ui-light
Install fcitx-ui-light 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 fcitx-ui-light using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fcitx-ui-light
How To Uninstall fcitx-ui-light on Debian 9
To uninstall only the fcitx-ui-light package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fcitx-ui-light
Uninstall fcitx-ui-light And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fcitx-ui-light and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fcitx-ui-light
Remove fcitx-ui-light Configurations and Data
To remove fcitx-ui-light configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fcitx-ui-light
Remove fcitx-ui-light configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fcitx-ui-light configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fcitx-ui-light
Dependencies
fcitx-ui-light have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fcitx-ui-light package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.