How To Install hime on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install hime on Debian 12.
What is hime
hime is:
HIME Input Method Editor is a input method platform, which is forked from the famous gcin input method.
To use HIME, the correspondence immodule packages also need to be installed. They are:
- hime-gtk2-immodule for GTK2
- hime-gtk3-immodule for GTK3
- hime-qt5-immodule for Qt5
There are three methods to install hime on Debian 12. 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 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 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install hime
Install hime Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install hime using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install hime
Install hime 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 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install hime
How To Uninstall hime on Debian 12
To uninstall only the hime package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove hime
Uninstall hime And Its Dependencies
To uninstall hime and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove hime
Remove hime Configurations and Data
To remove hime configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge hime
Remove hime configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove hime configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge hime
Dependencies
hime have the following dependencies:
- libc6
- libcairo2
- libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk2.0-0
- libhime
- libpango-1.0-0
- libpangocairo-1.0-0
- libx11-6
- libxtst6
- hime-data
- hime-tables
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install hime package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.