How To Install rime-data-sampheng on Debian 12

Learn how to install rime-data-sampheng on Debian 12 with this tutorial. rime-data-sampheng is Rime Input Method Engine schema data - sampheng (a.k.a Zhong Gu San Pin)

Introduction

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

What is rime-data-sampheng

rime-data-sampheng is:

RIME is the acronym of Rime Input Method Engine.

RIME is a lightweight, extensible input method engine supporting various input schematas 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 sampheng (a.k.a Zhong Gu San Pin) schema data of RIME.

There are three methods to install rime-data-sampheng 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-sampheng 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-sampheng using apt-get by running the following command:

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

Install rime-data-sampheng Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install rime-data-sampheng

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

sudo aptitude -y install rime-data-sampheng

How To Uninstall rime-data-sampheng on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove rime-data-sampheng

Uninstall rime-data-sampheng And Its Dependencies

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

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

Remove rime-data-sampheng Configurations and Data

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

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

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

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

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

Dependencies

rime-data-sampheng have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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