How To Install ibus-pinyin on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ibus-pinyin
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is ibus-pinyin
ibus-pinyin is:
ibus-pinyin is a IBus based IM engine for Chinese.
For more information on pinyin input method, please check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinyin_method
This package contains pinyin input method.
There are three methods to install ibus-pinyin
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-pinyin 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-pinyin
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ibus-pinyin
Install ibus-pinyin Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ibus-pinyin
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ibus-pinyin
Install ibus-pinyin 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-pinyin
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ibus-pinyin
How To Uninstall ibus-pinyin on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the ibus-pinyin
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ibus-pinyin
Uninstall ibus-pinyin And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ibus-pinyin
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ibus-pinyin
Remove ibus-pinyin Configurations and Data
To remove ibus-pinyin
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ibus-pinyin
Remove ibus-pinyin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ibus-pinyin
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ibus-pinyin
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ibus-pinyin
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.