How To Install python3-sunpinyin on Debian 12

Learn how to install python3-sunpinyin on Debian 12 with this tutorial. python3-sunpinyin is Simplified Chinese Input Method from SUN (Python binding)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-sunpinyin on Debian 12.

What is python3-sunpinyin

python3-sunpinyin is:

Sunpinyin is a statistical language model (SLM) based input method engine for Simplified Chinese, it features full sentence input.

This package contains the Python binding of sunpinyin.

There are three methods to install python3-sunpinyin on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install python3-sunpinyin Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install python3-sunpinyin using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install python3-sunpinyin

Install python3-sunpinyin Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install python3-sunpinyin using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install python3-sunpinyin

Install python3-sunpinyin 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 python3-sunpinyin using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install python3-sunpinyin

How To Uninstall python3-sunpinyin on Debian 12

To uninstall only the python3-sunpinyin package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove python3-sunpinyin

Uninstall python3-sunpinyin And Its Dependencies

To uninstall python3-sunpinyin and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-sunpinyin

Remove python3-sunpinyin Configurations and Data

To remove python3-sunpinyin configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge python3-sunpinyin

Remove python3-sunpinyin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove python3-sunpinyin configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-sunpinyin

Dependencies

python3-sunpinyin have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-sunpinyin package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.