How To Install ibus-gtk2 on Rocky Linux 8

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ibus-gtk2 on Rocky Linux 8.

What is ibus-gtk2

This package contains IBus IM module for GTK2

We can use yum or dnf to install ibus-gtk2 on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ibus-gtk2.

Install ibus-gtk2 on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install ibus-gtk2 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ibus-gtk2

Install ibus-gtk2 on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install ibus-gtk2 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ibus-gtk2

How To Uninstall ibus-gtk2 on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the ibus-gtk2 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove ibus-gtk2

ibus-gtk2 Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/20
/usr/lib/.build-id/20/bb85c1b1433dad5182368b21394dad5c3de5c3
/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/immodules/im-ibus.so
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/cc
/usr/lib/.build-id/cc/5f3c82ce005b9ce9f250f687de94f078d0726c
/usr/lib64/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/immodules/im-ibus.so

References

• ibus-gtk2 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ibus-gtk2 on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.