How To Install ibus-gtk on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ibus-gtk
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is ibus-gtk
ibus-gtk is:
IBus is an Intelligent Input Bus. It is a new input framework for the Linux OS. It provides full featured and user friendly input method user interface. It also may help developers to develop input method easily.
This package contains the GTK+2 IM module.
There are three methods to install ibus-gtk
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 ibus-gtk Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install ibus-gtk
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ibus-gtk
Install ibus-gtk Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ibus-gtk
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ibus-gtk
Install ibus-gtk 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 ibus-gtk
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ibus-gtk
How To Uninstall ibus-gtk on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the ibus-gtk
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ibus-gtk
Uninstall ibus-gtk And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ibus-gtk
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ibus-gtk
Remove ibus-gtk Configurations and Data
To remove ibus-gtk
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ibus-gtk
Remove ibus-gtk configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ibus-gtk
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ibus-gtk
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ibus-gtk
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.