How To Install fcitx5-chewing on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fcitx5-chewing on Kali Linux.

What is fcitx5-chewing

fcitx5-chewing is:

This package provides a wrapper of Chewing engine for Fcitx5.

Chewing is an intelligent phonetic input method library designed mainly for inputing Traditional Chinese.

There are three methods to install fcitx5-chewing on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install fcitx5-chewing Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install fcitx5-chewing using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install fcitx5-chewing

Install fcitx5-chewing Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install fcitx5-chewing using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install fcitx5-chewing

Install fcitx5-chewing Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install fcitx5-chewing using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install fcitx5-chewing

How To Uninstall fcitx5-chewing on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the fcitx5-chewing package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove fcitx5-chewing

Uninstall fcitx5-chewing And Its Dependencies

To uninstall fcitx5-chewing and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove fcitx5-chewing

Remove fcitx5-chewing Configurations and Data

To remove fcitx5-chewing configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge fcitx5-chewing

Remove fcitx5-chewing configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove fcitx5-chewing configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fcitx5-chewing

Dependencies

fcitx5-chewing have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libchewing3
• libfcitx5config6
• libfcitx5core7
• libfcitx5utils2
• libgcc-s1
• libstdc++6

References

• fcitx5-chewing website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fcitx5-chewing package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.