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Installing IBus Cangjie

Arch Linux

ibus-cangjie has not been included in official repository yet, but only in AUR. If it works for you and you like it, please don’t hesitate to vote it on upvote it. So you can install it with yay:

$ yay -S ibus-cangjie

Debian Unstable / Sid

IBus Cangjie is included in the default Debian repositories, so you can just install it with apt-get, as the root user:

# apt-get install ibus-cangjie

Fedora

IBus Cangjie is included in the default Fedora repositories, so you can just install it with yum:

$ sudo yum install ibus-cangjie

Gentoo

IBus Cangjie is included in the Gentoo repositories. It is currently masked. You will need to add “app-i18n/ibus-cangjie” to your /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords or use autounmask. Once unmasked install as root with :

$ emerge app-i18n/ibus-cangjie

Ubuntu

IBus Cangjie is included in the default Ubuntu repositories, since the 14.04 release, so you can install it with apt-get:

$ sudo apt-get install ibus-cangjie

Build from the sources

Prerequisites

To build and run the latest development version of IBus Cangjie, you will need to install the following:

Python >= 3.10
IBus >= 1.5 (with GObject introspection bindings v1.0)
GLib (with GObject introspection bindings v2.0)
Gtk (with GObject introspection bindings v4.0)
Gdk (with GObject introspection bindings v4.0)
pycangjie
libcangjie

Some Linux distributions already provide packages of them. Please consult your Linux distribution for relevant instructions.

Get the Source Code

For stable releases, you may download the release tarball from the releases section of our repository page.

Alternatively, you may get the latest development version (or or any release version) with git with this command:

$ git clone https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/cangjie/ibus-cangjie.git

Compile and Install

Latest developement version of ibus-cangjie requires the meson build system to compile. After installing meson, from the root folder of the source code, run:

$ meson setup ./builddir --prefix=/usr --wipe
$ meson build ./builddir
$ meson install -C ./builddir

If you have ibus-cangjie already running before this process, remember to restart ibus daemon to reload the newly built and installed version:

$ ibus restart

For Older Versions

Previous releases (2.4 or earlier) is built with GNU Automake.

Then, from the root folder of the Git clone, do the usual Autotools dance:

$ ./autogen.sh
$ make
$ sudo make install