How To Install scim-modules-socket on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install scim-modules-socket
on Debian 11.
What is scim-modules-socket
scim-modules-socket is:
SCIM (Smart Common Input Method) is an input method (IM) platform.
This package provides the socket modules for SCIM. SCIM can use a local or inet socket as the front end and connect to the configuration and IM engine modules. Then other computers and/or environments can share these input methods by connecting to the socket with socket IM engine module and socket configure module.
For more information about SCIM, please see the description of scim package.
There are three methods to install scim-modules-socket
on Debian 11. 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-modules-socket 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-modules-socket
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install scim-modules-socket
Install scim-modules-socket Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install scim-modules-socket
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install scim-modules-socket
Install scim-modules-socket 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 scim-modules-socket
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install scim-modules-socket
How To Uninstall scim-modules-socket on Debian 11
To uninstall only the scim-modules-socket
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove scim-modules-socket
Uninstall scim-modules-socket And Its Dependencies
To uninstall scim-modules-socket
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove scim-modules-socket
Remove scim-modules-socket Configurations and Data
To remove scim-modules-socket
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge scim-modules-socket
Remove scim-modules-socket configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove scim-modules-socket
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge scim-modules-socket
Dependencies
scim-modules-socket have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install scim-modules-socket
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.