Install Google PinYin Input Method in Linux

SELF: http://code.google.com/p/scim-googlepinyin/wiki/install
And modified some content.

 

Install
How to Build and install scim-googlepinyin

* Introduction
* Grab the source
* Build depends
* Runtime depends
* Build and install

Introduction

This document is intended to help you to build and install scim-googlepinyin from scratch.
Grab the source

Scim-googlepinyin still has some critical bugs. And it is still under active development. I 'd like to suggest you always try the latest version:

$ Git clone git: // github.com/tchaikov/scim-googlepinyin.git
$ Scim-googlepinyin.git CD

If the GIT command is not available in your system, you may want to install it to continue checking out the source.
Build depends

You will need install following package before building this software:

* Automake
* Libtool
* Autotools-Dev
* Libgtk2.0-Dev
* Libscim-Dev

Although these packages 'names vary, they are available on most GNU/Linux distribution. On Debian or Ubuntu, following command shocould work for you.

$ Sudo aptitude install automake libtool autotools-dev libgtk2.0-dev libscim-Dev

// We recommend that you use aptitude instead of APT-get, because the former will automatically install the missing content when the dependency is found to be missing. Yesterday, when I configured the android compiling environment, because libsdl-Dev was required to be installed, the dependent package could not be found. I even installed a deb package, and the result would not work. I saw a post installed with aptitude this morning, which solved the problem.

Runtime depends
* Scim

$ Sudo aptitude install scim

Build and install
Following commands installscim-googlepinyin into your system.

$./Autogen. Sh
$ Make
$ Sudo make install
 
Finally, you can configure it in scim. A small bug is found, that is, after the candidate word is turned over, the candidate word will be shifted to the left. Try to change the number of candidate words from the default value of 8 to the value of 7 to solve the problem, but the number of candidate words is still 9 in the list, which does not affect anything.