How To Install hime-tables on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install hime-tables on Ubuntu 18.04. hime-tables is input method tables for HIME

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install hime-tables on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is hime-tables

hime-tables is:

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

This package contains architecture-dependent input method tables.

There are three methods to install hime-tables on Ubuntu 18.04. 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-tables 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-tables using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install hime-tables

Install hime-tables Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install hime-tables

Install hime-tables 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install hime-tables

How To Uninstall hime-tables on Ubuntu 18.04

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

sudo apt-get remove hime-tables

Uninstall hime-tables And Its Dependencies

To uninstall hime-tables and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove hime-tables

Remove hime-tables Configurations and Data

To remove hime-tables configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge hime-tables

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

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

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

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install hime-tables package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.