How To Install scim-chewing on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install scim-chewing on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is scim-chewing
scim-chewing is:
SCIM (Smart Common Input Method) is an input method (IM) platform.
This package is the chewing IM engine module for SCIM. With this module, you can use intelligent Chinese input method with HanYu PinYin keyboard and a various of ZhuYin(bopomofo) keyboards.
For details about SCIM, please see the description of package scim.
There are three methods to install scim-chewing 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 scim-chewing Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install scim-chewing using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install scim-chewing
Install scim-chewing Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install scim-chewing using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install scim-chewing
Install scim-chewing 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 scim-chewing using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install scim-chewing
How To Uninstall scim-chewing on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the scim-chewing package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove scim-chewing
Uninstall scim-chewing And Its Dependencies
To uninstall scim-chewing and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove scim-chewing
Remove scim-chewing Configurations and Data
To remove scim-chewing configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge scim-chewing
Remove scim-chewing configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove scim-chewing configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge scim-chewing
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install scim-chewing package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
