How To Install xsunpinyin on Ubuntu

Posted on April 1, 2023  (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install xsunpinyin on Ubuntu.

What is xsunpinyin

xsunpinyin is:

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

This package provides a XIM server with SunPinyin input method.

There are three methods to install xsunpinyin 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 xsunpinyin Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install xsunpinyin

Install xsunpinyin Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install xsunpinyin using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install xsunpinyin

Install xsunpinyin 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 xsunpinyin using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install xsunpinyin

How To Uninstall xsunpinyin on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the xsunpinyin package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove xsunpinyin

Uninstall xsunpinyin And Its Dependencies

To uninstall xsunpinyin and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove xsunpinyin

Remove xsunpinyin Configurations and Data

To remove xsunpinyin configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge xsunpinyin

Remove xsunpinyin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge xsunpinyin

Dependencies

xsunpinyin have the following dependencies:

• sunpinyin-data
• libc6
• libcairo2
• libgcc-s1
• libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0
• libglib2.0-0
• libgtk2.0-0
• libpango-1.0-0
• libpangocairo-1.0-0
• libstdc++6
• libsunpinyin3v5
• libx11-6

References

• xsunpinyin website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install xsunpinyin package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.