How To Install ibus-clutter on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ibus-clutter on Kali Linux.
What is ibus-clutter
ibus-clutter is:
IBus is an Intelligent Input Bus. It is a new input framework for Linux OS. It provides full featured and user friendly input method user interface. It also may help developers to develop input method easily.
ibus-clutter is the clutter client of ibus, it provides a clutter-immodule for ibus.
There are three methods to install ibus-clutter 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 ibus-clutter Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install ibus-clutter using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ibus-clutterInstall ibus-clutter Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install ibus-clutter using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ibus-clutterInstall ibus-clutter 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install ibus-clutter using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ibus-clutterHow To Uninstall ibus-clutter on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the ibus-clutter package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ibus-clutterUninstall ibus-clutter And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ibus-clutter and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ibus-clutterRemove ibus-clutter Configurations and Data
To remove ibus-clutter configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ibus-clutterRemove ibus-clutter configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ibus-clutter configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ibus-clutterDependencies
ibus-clutter have the following dependencies:
- libclutter-imcontext-0.1-bin
- libc6
- libclutter-1.0-0
- libclutter-imcontext-0.1-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libibus-1.0-5
- libpango-1.0-0
- libx11-6
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ibus-clutter package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.