Installing libcangjie
Arch Linux
libcangjie has not been included in official repository yet, but only in AUR.
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with yay:
$ yay -S libcangjie
Debian Unstable / Sid
libcangjie is included in the default Debian repositories, so you can just
install it with apt-get, as the root user:
# apt-get install libcangjie2
Note that if you need the development headers, then you should also install
the libcangjie2-dev package.
Fedora
libcangjie is included in the default Fedora repositories, so you can just
install it with yum:
$ sudo yum install libcangjie
Note that if you need the development headers, then you should also install
the libcangjie-devel package.
Gentoo
Libcangjie is included in the Gentoo repositories. It is currently masked. You will need to add “app-i18n/libcangjie” to your /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords or use autounmask. Once unmasked install as root with :
$ emerge app-i18n/libcangjie
Ubuntu 14.04 or later
libcangjie is included in the default Ubuntu repositories, starting with the
14.04 release, so you can install it with apt-get:
$ sudo apt-get install libcangjie2
Note that if you need the development headers, then you should also install
the libcangjie2-dev package.
NixOS
libcangjie is included in the default NixOS channel, starting with the
14.02 release, so you can install it with nix-env:
$ nix-env --install libcangjie
Build from the sources
Dependencies
To build this library, you will need the following:
- a C compiler and library (we recommend GCC and the GNU C library)
- the SQLite3 library and development headers
Install from a release tarball
Download a release tarball from the releases section on Freedesktop.org.
Installation requires meson build system to run. After installing meson, from the root folder of the unpacked tarball, run:
$ meson setup ./builddir --prefix=/usr --wipe
$ meson build ./builddir
$ meson install -C ./builddir
If you have want to test against ibus-cangjie on your system but ibus-cangjie is already running before this process, remember to restart ibus daemon to reload the newly built and installed version:
$ ibus restart
Install from Git
First, you need to clone the development repository:
$ git clone https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/cangjie/libcangjie.git
Then, from the root folder of the Git clone, do the usual Autotools dance:
$ ./autogen.sh
$ make
$ sudo make install