How To Install maliit-keyboard-data on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install maliit-keyboard-data on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is maliit-keyboard-data
maliit-keyboard-data is:
Maliit provides a flexible and cross-platform input method framework for mobile and embedded text input. It has a plugin-based client-server architecture where applications act as clients and communicate with the Maliit server via toolkit-specific input context plugins.
This package contains data files for the Maliit reference on-screen keyboard.
There are three methods to install maliit-keyboard-data on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install maliit-keyboard-data Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install maliit-keyboard-data using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install maliit-keyboard-data
Install maliit-keyboard-data Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install maliit-keyboard-data using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install maliit-keyboard-data
Install maliit-keyboard-data 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 maliit-keyboard-data using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install maliit-keyboard-data
How To Uninstall maliit-keyboard-data on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the maliit-keyboard-data package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove maliit-keyboard-data
Uninstall maliit-keyboard-data And Its Dependencies
To uninstall maliit-keyboard-data and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove maliit-keyboard-data
Remove maliit-keyboard-data Configurations and Data
To remove maliit-keyboard-data configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge maliit-keyboard-data
Remove maliit-keyboard-data configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove maliit-keyboard-data configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge maliit-keyboard-data
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install maliit-keyboard-data package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
