How To Install ucimf-sunpinyin on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ucimf-sunpinyin on Kali Linux.

What is ucimf-sunpinyin

ucimf-sunpinyin is:

ucimf-sunpinyin is a wrapper for Sunpinyin IM engine for the Linux framebuffer console input method framework.

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

There are three methods to install ucimf-sunpinyin on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install ucimf-sunpinyin Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install ucimf-sunpinyin

Install ucimf-sunpinyin Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ucimf-sunpinyin

Install ucimf-sunpinyin Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install ucimf-sunpinyin

How To Uninstall ucimf-sunpinyin on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove ucimf-sunpinyin

Uninstall ucimf-sunpinyin And Its Dependencies

To uninstall ucimf-sunpinyin and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ucimf-sunpinyin

Remove ucimf-sunpinyin Configurations and Data

To remove ucimf-sunpinyin configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ucimf-sunpinyin

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

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

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

Dependencies

ucimf-sunpinyin have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libgcc1

References

• ucimf-sunpinyin website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ucimf-sunpinyin package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.