How To Install ucimf-sunpinyin on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ucimf-sunpinyin on Ubuntu 18.04.
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 Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install 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 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 ucimf-sunpinyin using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ucimf-sunpinyin
How To Uninstall ucimf-sunpinyin on Ubuntu 18.04
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 Ubuntu 18.04, 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 Ubuntu 18.04 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
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ucimf-sunpinyin package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
