How To Install ibus-sunpinyin on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ibus-sunpinyin on Kali Linux.

What is ibus-sunpinyin

ibus-sunpinyin is:

Sunpinyin is a statistical language model (SLM) based input method engine for Simplified Chinese, it features full sentence input.

This package contains the sunpinyin engine for ibus.

There are three methods to install ibus-sunpinyin on Kali Linux. 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-sunpinyin 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-sunpinyin using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install ibus-sunpinyin

Install ibus-sunpinyin Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ibus-sunpinyin

Install ibus-sunpinyin Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install ibus-sunpinyin using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ibus-sunpinyin

How To Uninstall ibus-sunpinyin on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove ibus-sunpinyin

Uninstall ibus-sunpinyin And Its Dependencies

To uninstall ibus-sunpinyin and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ibus-sunpinyin

Remove ibus-sunpinyin Configurations and Data

To remove ibus-sunpinyin configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ibus-sunpinyin

Remove ibus-sunpinyin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove ibus-sunpinyin configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ibus-sunpinyin

Dependencies

ibus-sunpinyin have the following dependencies:

• gir1.2-gtk-3.0
• sunpinyin-data
• python3

References

• ibus-sunpinyin website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ibus-sunpinyin package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.