How To Install fcitx5-chewing on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
2 minutes • 354 words
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fcitx5-chewing on Ubuntu.
What is fcitx5-chewing
fcitx5-chewing is:
This package provides a wrapper of Chewing engine for Fcitx5.
Chewing is an intelligent phonetic input method library designed mainly for inputing Traditional Chinese.
There are three methods to install fcitx5-chewing on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install fcitx5-chewing Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install fcitx5-chewing using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fcitx5-chewing
Install fcitx5-chewing Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fcitx5-chewing using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fcitx5-chewing
Install fcitx5-chewing 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 fcitx5-chewing using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fcitx5-chewing
How To Uninstall fcitx5-chewing on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the fcitx5-chewing package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fcitx5-chewing
Uninstall fcitx5-chewing And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fcitx5-chewing and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fcitx5-chewing
Remove fcitx5-chewing Configurations and Data
To remove fcitx5-chewing configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fcitx5-chewing
Remove fcitx5-chewing configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fcitx5-chewing configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fcitx5-chewing
Dependencies
fcitx5-chewing have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fcitx5-chewing package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.