How To Install ibus-table on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ibus-table
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is ibus-table
ibus-table is:
IBus-Table is the IM Engine framework for table-based input methods, such as WuBi, ErBi, CangJie and so on.
This package provide the table engine framework and one input method:
- Compose: input special character by compose letter and diacritical mark
More input method based on ibus-table can be installed from ibus-table-cangjie, ibus-table-wubi, … Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop
There are three methods to install ibus-table
on Ubuntu 20.04. 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-table 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-table
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ibus-table
Install ibus-table Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ibus-table
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ibus-table
Install ibus-table 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-table
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ibus-table
How To Uninstall ibus-table on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the ibus-table
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ibus-table
Uninstall ibus-table And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ibus-table
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ibus-table
Remove ibus-table Configurations and Data
To remove ibus-table
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ibus-table
Remove ibus-table configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ibus-table
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ibus-table
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ibus-table
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.