uim/Installation
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Uim comes packaged with most *nix distributions, but may also be compiled directly from source.
During installation, you may also want to install some input methods as well. See the Introduction page for a list of currently implemented conversion engines.
From source
[edit | edit source]For instructions about installing uim using a package management system that comes with most operating system distributions (such as Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Gentoo and the BSDs), please refer to your package manager documentation for now.
Software requirements
[edit | edit source]iconvgettextpkgconfig
Optional software
[edit | edit source]curses— Needed to build uim-fep.GTK >= 2.4— Needed to build GTK tools and the GTK immodule.gnome-panel— Needed to build GNOME applet indicator.Qt >= 3.3.2,Qt < 4— Needed to build Qt 3 immodule and tools. You also need to apply the immodule-qt patch to build the Qt immodule.Qt >= 4— Needed to build Qt 4 immodule and tools. To run uim 1.5 or lower, the Qt3Support module in Qt 4 is required.[1][2][3]Qt >= 5— Needed to build Qt 5 immodule and tools.m17nlib>= 1.3.1 — Needed to use uim-m17nlib bridge.- libintl — for Native Language Support
- CJK fonts[4] — Needed to use uim-xim
- font-sony-misc
- font-isas-misc (for Simplified Chinese)
- font-jis-misc (for Japanese)
- font-daewoo-misc (for Korean)
Conversion engines
[edit | edit source]Anthy— Anthy module.Canna— Canna module.Mana— Mana module.PRIME— PRIME module.
Retrieve the source code
[edit | edit source]You can download the source code from the source directory. It includes the core library, various conversion engines, GTK bridge, Qt bridge, XIM bridge, FEP bridge, Emacs bridge, tools for configuration, and other tools.
If you want to use the latest development version, see also uim/Development.
Extract and configure
[edit | edit source]Begin by extracting the source from tar ball:
$ tar xvjf uim-x.x.x.tar.bz2
Then, move to the extracted directory and run configure.
$ cd uim-x.x.x $ ./configure
The following configuration options are disabled by default but can be added to the ./configure command.
--enable-debug
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Build uim with debug information |
--enable-default-toolkit
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Set a default toolkit |
--enable-dict
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Enable Japanese dictionary tool |
--with-anthy-utf8
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Use Anthy with UTF-8 |
--with-canna
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Use Canna |
--with-eb
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Use EB |
--with-qt
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Build Qt 3 tools |
--with-qt-immodule
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Build Qt 3 immodule. If you have Qt 3, you need the qt-immodule patch. |
--with-qt4
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Build Qt 4 tools. |
--with-qt4-immodule
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Build Qt 4 immodule. |
--with-qt5
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Build Qt 5 tools. |
--with-qt5-immodule
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Build Qt 5 immodule. |
--with-sj3
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Use Sj3 |
--with-wnn
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Use Wnn |
The full set of configuration options, run
$ ./configure --help
Finally, you make and install the package:
$ make $ sudo make install
/usr/local/, which may not be in the system search path. If not, you need to add --prefix=/prefix/dir option to your ./configure command, where /prefix/dir would be the directory under which programs are usually installed on your system.libuim is in /usr/local/lib/. The scheme programs are in /usr/local/share/uim/.
Post-installation
[edit | edit source]To use the GTK immodule, you may need to generate the immodule file.[5] Run:
$ sudo gtk-query-immodules-2.0 > /etc/gtk-2.0/gtk.immodules
or
$ gtk-query-immodules-2.0 im-uim.so > ~/.immodules