How To Install freewnn-cserver on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install freewnn-cserver
on Debian 9.
What is freewnn-cserver
freewnn-cserver is:
FreeWnn cserver (cWnn) is an integrated Chinese input system running on Unix workstation. It supports a wide range of input methods, satisfying the needs of the Chinese users from all over the world, including P.R.China and Taiwan. FreeWnn cserver is capable of carrying out Hanzi conversion from an arbitrary Pinyin or Zhuyin sequence, hence improving the speed of Pinyin/Zhuyin input.
There are three methods to install freewnn-cserver
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 freewnn-cserver Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install freewnn-cserver
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install freewnn-cserver
Install freewnn-cserver Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install freewnn-cserver
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install freewnn-cserver
Install freewnn-cserver 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 freewnn-cserver
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install freewnn-cserver
How To Uninstall freewnn-cserver on Debian 9
To uninstall only the freewnn-cserver
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove freewnn-cserver
Uninstall freewnn-cserver And Its Dependencies
To uninstall freewnn-cserver
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove freewnn-cserver
Remove freewnn-cserver Configurations and Data
To remove freewnn-cserver
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge freewnn-cserver
Remove freewnn-cserver configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove freewnn-cserver
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge freewnn-cserver
Dependencies
freewnn-cserver have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install freewnn-cserver
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.