How To Install ibus-qt4 on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ibus-qt4
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is ibus-qt4
ibus-qt4 is:
IBus is an Intelligent Input Bus. It is a new input framework for Linux OS. It provides full featured and user friendly input method user interface. It also may help developers to develop input method easily.
ibus-qt4 is the QT4 client of ibus, it provide a qt-immodule for ibus.
There are three methods to install ibus-qt4
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-qt4 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-qt4
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ibus-qt4
Install ibus-qt4 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ibus-qt4
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ibus-qt4
Install ibus-qt4 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-qt4
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ibus-qt4
How To Uninstall ibus-qt4 on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the ibus-qt4
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ibus-qt4
Uninstall ibus-qt4 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ibus-qt4
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ibus-qt4
Remove ibus-qt4 Configurations and Data
To remove ibus-qt4
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ibus-qt4
Remove ibus-qt4 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ibus-qt4
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ibus-qt4
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ibus-qt4
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.