How To Install sunpinyin-utils on Debian 10

Learn how to install sunpinyin-utils on Debian 10 with this tutorial. sunpinyin-utils is Simplified Chinese Input Method from SUN (utilities)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install sunpinyin-utils on Debian 10.

What is sunpinyin-utils

sunpinyin-utils is:

Sunpinyin is a statistical language model (SLM) based input method engine for Simplified Chinese, it features full sentence input.

This package contains some utilities used by open-gram project, including:

  • genpyt - generate the pinyin lexicon
  • tslmpack - convert the ARPA format of SunPinyin back-off language model to its binary representation
  • tslmendian - change the byte-order of sunpinyin’s threaded back-off language model

and some Python programs which maybe used to import user dictionary from other input method such as sougou, google, fcitx etc.

There are three methods to install sunpinyin-utils 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 sunpinyin-utils Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install sunpinyin-utils using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install sunpinyin-utils

Install sunpinyin-utils Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install sunpinyin-utils using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install sunpinyin-utils

Install sunpinyin-utils 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 sunpinyin-utils using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install sunpinyin-utils

How To Uninstall sunpinyin-utils on Debian 10

To uninstall only the sunpinyin-utils package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove sunpinyin-utils

Uninstall sunpinyin-utils And Its Dependencies

To uninstall sunpinyin-utils and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove sunpinyin-utils

Remove sunpinyin-utils Configurations and Data

To remove sunpinyin-utils configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge sunpinyin-utils

Remove sunpinyin-utils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge sunpinyin-utils

Dependencies

sunpinyin-utils have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install sunpinyin-utils package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.