How To Install hime-chewing on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is hime-chewing

hime-chewing 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 chewing in HIME.

There are three methods to install hime-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 hime-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 hime-chewing using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install hime-chewing

Install hime-chewing Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install hime-chewing

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

sudo aptitude -y install hime-chewing

How To Uninstall hime-chewing on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove hime-chewing

Uninstall hime-chewing And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove hime-chewing

Remove hime-chewing Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge hime-chewing

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

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

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

Dependencies

hime-chewing have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libchewing3
• libglib2.0-0
• libgtk2.0-0
• libpango-1.0-0
• hime

References

• hime-chewing website

Summary

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