How To Install gcin on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gcin
on Kali Linux.
What is gcin
gcin is:
gcin is a GTK+ based input method which focused mainly on Traditional Chinese. However, it is also very useful for Simplified Chinese, Japanese, and many other languages.
To use gcin, the correspondence immodule packages also need to be installed. They are:
- gcin-gtk2-immodule for GTK2
- gcin-gtk3-immodule for GTK3
- gcin-qt5-immodule for Qt5
There are three methods to install gcin
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 gcin Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install gcin
using apt-get
by running the following command:
Install gcin Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install gcin
using apt
by running the following command:
Install gcin 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.
After updating apt database, We can install gcin
using aptitude
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall gcin on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the gcin
package we can use the following command:
Uninstall gcin And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gcin
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
Remove gcin Configurations and Data
To remove gcin
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
Remove gcin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gcin
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
Dependencies
gcin have the following dependencies:
- libc6
- libcairo2
- libcurl4
- libgcin
- libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk-3-0
- libpango-1.0-0
- libpangocairo-1.0-0
- libx11-6
- libxtst6
- gcin-data
- gcin-tables
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gcin
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.