How To Install fcitx5-rime on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fcitx5-rime on Debian 11.
What is fcitx5-rime
fcitx5-rime is:
This package provides a wrapper of RIME engine for Fcitx5.
RIME is a lightweight, extensible input method engine supporting various input schematas including glyph-based input methods, romanization-based input methods as well as those for Chinese dialects.
There are three methods to install fcitx5-rime on Debian 11. 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-rime 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-rime using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fcitx5-rime
Install fcitx5-rime Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fcitx5-rime using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fcitx5-rime
Install fcitx5-rime 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 fcitx5-rime using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fcitx5-rime
How To Uninstall fcitx5-rime on Debian 11
To uninstall only the fcitx5-rime package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fcitx5-rime
Uninstall fcitx5-rime And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fcitx5-rime and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fcitx5-rime
Remove fcitx5-rime Configurations and Data
To remove fcitx5-rime configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fcitx5-rime
Remove fcitx5-rime configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fcitx5-rime configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fcitx5-rime
Dependencies
fcitx5-rime have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fcitx5-rime package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.