How To Install ng-cjk-canna on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install ng-cjk-canna on Ubuntu 18.04. ng-cjk-canna is Nihongo MicroGnuEmacs with CJK and Canna support

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ng-cjk-canna on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is ng-cjk-canna

ng-cjk-canna is:

Ng is Nihongo Mg, MicroGnuEmacs. It is a small lightweight Emacs-like editor. It can handle both Latin and CJK.

ng-cjk-canna can handle ISO-2022-JP, Shift-JIS, EUC-JP as well as EUC-KR and EUC-CN(GB only). Latin is not supported. Canna, one of Japanese input methods, is also supported.

There are three methods to install ng-cjk-canna 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 ng-cjk-canna Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install ng-cjk-canna using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install ng-cjk-canna

Install ng-cjk-canna Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install ng-cjk-canna using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install ng-cjk-canna

Install ng-cjk-canna 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 ng-cjk-canna using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ng-cjk-canna

How To Uninstall ng-cjk-canna on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the ng-cjk-canna package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove ng-cjk-canna

Uninstall ng-cjk-canna And Its Dependencies

To uninstall ng-cjk-canna and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ng-cjk-canna

Remove ng-cjk-canna Configurations and Data

To remove ng-cjk-canna configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ng-cjk-canna

Remove ng-cjk-canna configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove ng-cjk-canna configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ng-cjk-canna

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ng-cjk-canna package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.