How To Install m17n-lib-mimx on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install m17n-lib-mimx on Kali Linux. m17n-lib-mimx is multilingual text processing library - binary modules

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install m17n-lib-mimx on Kali Linux.

What is m17n-lib-mimx

m17n-lib-mimx is:

The m17n library is a multilingual text processing library for the C language. This library has following features:

  • The m17n library is an open source software.
  • The m17n library for any Linux/Unix applications.
  • The m17n library realizes multilingualization of many aspects of applications.
  • The m17n library represents multilingual text as an object named M-text. M-text is a string with attributes called text properties, and designed to substitute for string in C. Text properties carry any information required to input, display and edit the text.
  • The m17n library supports functions to handle M-texts.

m17n is an abbreviation of Multilingualization.

This package contains the binary modules needed by:

  • ja-anthy.mim
  • ispell.mim

There are three methods to install m17n-lib-mimx 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 m17n-lib-mimx Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install m17n-lib-mimx using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install m17n-lib-mimx

Install m17n-lib-mimx Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install m17n-lib-mimx using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install m17n-lib-mimx

Install m17n-lib-mimx 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 m17n-lib-mimx using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install m17n-lib-mimx

How To Uninstall m17n-lib-mimx on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the m17n-lib-mimx package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove m17n-lib-mimx

Uninstall m17n-lib-mimx And Its Dependencies

To uninstall m17n-lib-mimx and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove m17n-lib-mimx

Remove m17n-lib-mimx Configurations and Data

To remove m17n-lib-mimx configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge m17n-lib-mimx

Remove m17n-lib-mimx configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove m17n-lib-mimx configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge m17n-lib-mimx

Dependencies

m17n-lib-mimx have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install m17n-lib-mimx package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.