How To Install ibus-pygtk2 on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install ibus-pygtk2 on CentOS 7. ibus-pygtk2 is IBus PyGTK2 library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ibus-pygtk2 on CentOS 7.

What is ibus-pygtk2

This is a PyGTK2 library for IBus. Now major IBus engines use PyGObject3 and this package will be deprecated.

We can use yum or dnf to install ibus-pygtk2 on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ibus-pygtk2.

Install ibus-pygtk2 on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install ibus-pygtk2 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ibus-pygtk2

Install ibus-pygtk2 on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install ibus-pygtk2 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ibus-pygtk2

How To Uninstall ibus-pygtk2 on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the ibus-pygtk2 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove ibus-pygtk2

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ibus-pygtk2 on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.