How To Install rime-data-bopomofo on Debian 12

Learn how to install rime-data-bopomofo on Debian 12 with this tutorial. rime-data-bopomofo is Rime Input Method Engine schema data - Bopomofo (Zhuyin)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install rime-data-bopomofo on Debian 12.

What is rime-data-bopomofo

rime-data-bopomofo is:

RIME is the acronym of Rime Input Method Engine.

RIME is a lightweight, extensible input method engine supporting various input schemas 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 bopomofo (zhuyin) schema data of RIME.

There are three methods to install rime-data-bopomofo 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 rime-data-bopomofo Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install rime-data-bopomofo using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install rime-data-bopomofo

Install rime-data-bopomofo Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install rime-data-bopomofo using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install rime-data-bopomofo

Install rime-data-bopomofo 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 rime-data-bopomofo using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install rime-data-bopomofo

How To Uninstall rime-data-bopomofo on Debian 12

To uninstall only the rime-data-bopomofo package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove rime-data-bopomofo

Uninstall rime-data-bopomofo And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove rime-data-bopomofo

Remove rime-data-bopomofo Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge rime-data-bopomofo

Remove rime-data-bopomofo configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge rime-data-bopomofo

Dependencies

rime-data-bopomofo have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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