How To Install ibus-gtk on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ibus-gtk on Ubuntu 20.04.
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 GTK2 IM module. Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
Package: ibus-gtk Architecture: amd64 Version: 1.5.22-2ubuntu2 Multi-Arch: same Priority: optional Section: utils Source: ibus Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian Input Method Team [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 80 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.46.0~), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.24.5-4), libibus-1.0-5 (>= 1.5.21), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0) Filename: pool/main/i/ibus/ibus-gtk_1.5.22-2ubuntu2_amd64.deb Size: 15144 MD5sum: 9d1cb66e00b70d747db4d145bf6edfd5 SHA1: f43ba8afdb3fb4b2d9a620b4ace0e1b3a9a417e4 SHA256: b11f41ae59ee190c899e676f015a81874b53cc63d7bf8d32328961ca4a2a7421 Homepage: https://github.com/ibus/ibus Description-en: Intelligent Input Bus - GTK2 support 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 GTK2 IM module. Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
There are three methods to install ibus-gtk on Ubuntu 20.04. 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 20.04
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 20.04, 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 20.04 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
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ibus-gtk package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.