How To Install ibus-tegaki on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install ibus-tegaki on Debian 9. ibus-tegaki is tegaki engine for IBus

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ibus-tegaki on Debian 9.

What is ibus-tegaki

ibus-tegaki 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.

Tegaki is an ongoing project which aims to develop a free and open-source modern implementation of handwriting recognition software, that is suitable for both the desktop and mobile devices, and that is designed from the ground up to work well with Chinese and Japanese.

this package provide the tegaki engine for ibus.

There are three methods to install ibus-tegaki on Debian 9. 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-tegaki 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-tegaki using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install ibus-tegaki

Install ibus-tegaki Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ibus-tegaki

Install ibus-tegaki 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install ibus-tegaki

How To Uninstall ibus-tegaki on Debian 9

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

sudo apt-get remove ibus-tegaki

Uninstall ibus-tegaki And Its Dependencies

To uninstall ibus-tegaki and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ibus-tegaki

Remove ibus-tegaki Configurations and Data

To remove ibus-tegaki configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ibus-tegaki

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

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

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

Dependencies

ibus-tegaki have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ibus-tegaki package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.