HOWTO: Install ibus-sunpinyin on Ubuntu (Ubuntu ibus

[chenxiaolong]

In Ubuntu 10.10 and up, it's really easy to install sunpinyin. Just run,

sudo apt-get install ibus-sunpinyin sunpinyin-data

The information below is not required anymore!

SunPinyin is an excellent 拼音 project by the SunPinyin group. In my experience, it has the best dictionary I've ever used (on Linux) and I'm going to show you how to install it the proper way by creating deb packages.

1. First, you need to install the packages: libtool libibus-dev sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev libgtk2.0-dev build-essential debhelper autotools-dev git-core scons:

sudo apt-get install libtool libibus-dev sqlite3 libgtk2.0-dev build-essential debhelper autotools-dev git-core scons

2. Then, you need to install the "cdbs" package from the Debian Sid repository as the Ubuntu version is too old and doesn't include the file: "/usr/share/cdbs/1/class/scons.mk"

wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/c/cdbs/cdbs_0.4.89_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i cdbs_0.4.89_all.deb

3. Create a directory and change to it in a terminal:

mkdir ~/build_sunpinyin
cd ~/build_sunpinyin

4. Download the latest source from the git repository:

git clone git://github.com/sunpinyin/sunpinyin.git

5. Change to the "sunpinyin" directory within the "~/build_sunpinyin" directory:

cd sunpinyin

6. Generate the "debian/control" file for building a deb package.

DEB_AUTO_UPDATE_DEBIAN_CONTROL=yes fakeroot debian/rules clean

7. Build the deb package:

dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc

8. Step 7 creates 4 deb packages in ~/build_sunpinyin:

ibus-sunpinyin*.deb
sunpinyin-data-be*.deb
sunpinyin-data-le*.deb
xsunpinyin*.deb

DO NOT INSTALL ALL OF THEM!

Only install (3 packages: libsunpinyin, libsunpinyin-dev, sunpinyin-data-le): libsunpinyin3*.deb sunpinyin-data-le*.deb:

sudo dpkg -i libsunpinyin3*.deb sunpinyin-data-le*.deb

9. Change into the "~/build_sunpinyin/sunpinyin/wrapper/ibus" directory.

cd ~/build_sunpinyin/sunpinyin/wrapper/ibus

10. Once again, generate the "debian/control" file.

DEB_AUTO_UPDATE_DEBIAN_CONTROL=yes fakeroot debian/rules clean

11. Then, generate the [COLOR="Blue"]ibus-sunpinyin[/CODE] deb package.

dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc

12. Change to the parent directory: "~/build_sunpinyin/sunpinyin/wrapper"

cd ~/build_sunpinyin/sunpinyin/wrapper

13. Install the ibus-sunpinyin package.

sudo dpkg -i ibus-sunpinyin*.deb

14. Right or left click the iBus icon in the system tray and click Restart.

15. Goto System > Preferences > iBus Preferences.

16. Goto the Input Method tab.

17. Under "Select an input method," choose Chinese > SunPinyin and click Add.

18. Close the preferences, right click the iBus icon in the system tray, and click Restart.

19. Enjoy typing in Chinese!

[wt8008]

Step 1, package libsqlite3-dev needed, I couldn't complete step 5
Step 5, typo for prefix?

Also, use the restart feature in the tray for the iBus icon before adding in Sunpinyin

Thanks for the guide in English, it made installing go faster.

[chenxiaolong]

Sorry about those mistakes. I tried to think of the dependencies off the top of my head because I already had everything installed.

About step 5....yeah....my touchpad tends to be a little (VERY) jumpy.

I'll correct the mistakes in the first post.

[wt8008]

You should left click on the ibus icon to bring the menu up, if you right click you bring up the regular Gnome Applet menu.

[chenxiaolong]

Shoot, I forgot about the indicator applet thingy . I was using a different theme.

[NelsonYao]

Where is "autogen.sh"? There is no such file in the directory.

[chenxiaolong]

The ibus-sunpinyin developers recently updated their method of compilation. I'll modify my first post sometime tomorrow .

[chenxiaolong]

Sorry for the the late reply. One of my hard drives in my RAID0 configuration died .

Anyway, I've updated the first post of this thread to include the new instructions .

[adellalin]

when needs lib dependency like the following
dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Unmet build dependencies: libsqlite3-dev (>= 3.6)
dpkg-buildpackage: warning: Build dependencies/conflicts unsatisfied; aborting.
dpkg-buildpackage: warning: (Use -d flag to override.)

Install lib here-
sudo apt-get install libsqlite3-dev

[opodaniel]

New version out so

wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool...0.4.88_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i cdbs_0.4.88_all.deb

should be change to
wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool...0.4.89_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i cdbs_0.4.89_all.deb