How To Install skkdic on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install skkdic
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is skkdic
skkdic is:
This package provides
SKK-JISYO', the standard dictionary file for SKK Japanese input systems. Currently, this package contains the large size dictionary file
SKK-JISYO.L’ as the standard dictionary file.
For faster access, install the skkdic-cdb package which provides the constant database (cdb) file of this dictionary. Other dictionary files, such as zipcode, personal names, small size, are provided by the skkdic-extra package.
To merge or edit dictionaries, install the skktools package. To use dictionaries more conveniently, several SKK dictionary servers are available, such as dbskkd-cdb and skksearch.
There are three methods to install skkdic
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install skkdic Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install skkdic
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install skkdic
Install skkdic Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install skkdic
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install skkdic
Install skkdic 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 skkdic
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install skkdic
How To Uninstall skkdic on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the skkdic
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove skkdic
Uninstall skkdic And Its Dependencies
To uninstall skkdic
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove skkdic
Remove skkdic Configurations and Data
To remove skkdic
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge skkdic
Remove skkdic configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove skkdic
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge skkdic
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install skkdic
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.