How To Install scim-tables-additional on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install scim-tables-additional on Debian 10.
What is scim-tables-additional
scim-tables-additional is:
SCIM (Smart Common Input Method) is an input method (IM) platform.
This package contains SCIM input method data tables for non-CJK languages. The currently supported languages are Amharic, Arabic, Nepali, Russian, Thai, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, and several Indic languages (Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Punjabi, Tamil and Telugu). It also provides support for X-SAMPA and LaTeX style input.
Note many table-based input methods provided in this package are very primitive, and probably doesn’t fit native speakers’ need. Users should also look at scim-m17n package (which uses M17N library) and see if it provides better support to the language he/she needs.
For details about SCIM, please see the description of package scim.
There are three methods to install scim-tables-additional on Debian 10. 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-tables-additional 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-tables-additional using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install scim-tables-additional
Install scim-tables-additional Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install scim-tables-additional using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install scim-tables-additional
Install scim-tables-additional 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-tables-additional using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install scim-tables-additional
How To Uninstall scim-tables-additional on Debian 10
To uninstall only the scim-tables-additional package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove scim-tables-additional
Uninstall scim-tables-additional And Its Dependencies
To uninstall scim-tables-additional and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove scim-tables-additional
Remove scim-tables-additional Configurations and Data
To remove scim-tables-additional configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge scim-tables-additional
Remove scim-tables-additional configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove scim-tables-additional configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge scim-tables-additional
Dependencies
scim-tables-additional have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install scim-tables-additional package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.