How To Install librime-data-terra-pinyin on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install librime-data-terra-pinyin on Kali Linux.

What is librime-data-terra-pinyin

librime-data-terra-pinyin is:

RIME is the acronym of Rime Input Method Engine.

RIME is a lightweight, extensible input method engine supporting various input schematas including glyph-based input methods, romanization-based input methods as well as those for Chinese dialects. It has the ability to compose phrases and sentences intelligently and provide very accurate traditional Chinese output. RIME’s cross-platform core library is written in C++, and can work consistently on different platforms with OS-specific wrappers.

This package provides the terra pinyin schema data of RIME.

There are three methods to install librime-data-terra-pinyin 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 librime-data-terra-pinyin Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install librime-data-terra-pinyin using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install librime-data-terra-pinyin

Install librime-data-terra-pinyin Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install librime-data-terra-pinyin using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install librime-data-terra-pinyin

Install librime-data-terra-pinyin 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 librime-data-terra-pinyin using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install librime-data-terra-pinyin

How To Uninstall librime-data-terra-pinyin on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the librime-data-terra-pinyin package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove librime-data-terra-pinyin

Uninstall librime-data-terra-pinyin And Its Dependencies

To uninstall librime-data-terra-pinyin and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove librime-data-terra-pinyin

Remove librime-data-terra-pinyin Configurations and Data

To remove librime-data-terra-pinyin configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge librime-data-terra-pinyin

Remove librime-data-terra-pinyin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove librime-data-terra-pinyin configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge librime-data-terra-pinyin

Dependencies

librime-data-terra-pinyin have the following dependencies:

• librime-data
• librime-data-cangjie5

References

• librime-data-terra-pinyin website

Summary

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