How To Install hime-anthy on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install hime-anthy on Debian 9. hime-anthy is support library to use Anthy in HIME

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install hime-anthy on Debian 9.

What is hime-anthy

hime-anthy is:

HIME Input Method Editor is a input method platform, which is forked from the famous gcin input method.

This package is the support library to use anthy in HIME.

There are three methods to install hime-anthy 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 hime-anthy Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install hime-anthy

Install hime-anthy Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install hime-anthy

Install hime-anthy 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 hime-anthy using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install hime-anthy

How To Uninstall hime-anthy on Debian 9

To uninstall only the hime-anthy package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove hime-anthy

Uninstall hime-anthy And Its Dependencies

To uninstall hime-anthy and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove hime-anthy

Remove hime-anthy Configurations and Data

To remove hime-anthy configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge hime-anthy

Remove hime-anthy configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge hime-anthy

Dependencies

hime-anthy have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install hime-anthy package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.