How To Install ibus-sunpinyin on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ibus-sunpinyin on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is ibus-sunpinyin
ibus-sunpinyin is:
Sunpinyin is a statistical language model (SLM) based input method engine for Simplified Chinese, it features full sentence input.
This package contains the sunpinyin engine for ibus.
There are three methods to install ibus-sunpinyin 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 ibus-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 ibus-sunpinyin using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ibus-sunpinyin
Install ibus-sunpinyin Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ibus-sunpinyin using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ibus-sunpinyin
Install ibus-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 ibus-sunpinyin using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ibus-sunpinyin
How To Uninstall ibus-sunpinyin on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the ibus-sunpinyin package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ibus-sunpinyin
Uninstall ibus-sunpinyin And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ibus-sunpinyin and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ibus-sunpinyin
Remove ibus-sunpinyin Configurations and Data
To remove ibus-sunpinyin configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ibus-sunpinyin
Remove ibus-sunpinyin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ibus-sunpinyin configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ibus-sunpinyin
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ibus-sunpinyin package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
