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stozi

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Registered: 2010-03-02

Posts: 149

ibus-m17n for repos?

Hello, sorry to bother the busy, but for those of us who need both Chinese and non-latin alphabet input, ibus-m17n would be a nice addition to the repos. Scim-m17n is there, but scim sucks. It is the only thing from AUR I need, but seems to me crucial for internationalization.

Anyway, I'm so happy ibus is in repo at all now!

psyomn

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Registered: 2010-06-02

Posts: 4

Re: ibus-m17n for repos?

Not sure if you solved your problem, but what I did and worked was:

Install ibus via pacman

Then get source for ibus-m17n engine:
http://code.google.com/p/ibus/downloads/list

Run this in directory (as taken from googlecode):

$ zcat ibus-m17n-xx.tar.gz | tar xfv -
$ cd ibus-m17n
$ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr
$ make
$ sudo make install

Then run the command:

$ ibus-daemon && ibus-engine-m17n &

And you should be good to go. You can probably put this in a startup script or something when you startx (I'm guessing).

Sorry for necropost.

Last edited by psyomn (2010-06-04 22:26:15)

zodmaner

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Registered: 2007-07-11

Posts: 653

Re: ibus-m17n for repos?

There is no need to manually build and install ibus-m17n, as ibus-m17n package is available on AUR: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26932.

I guess the original poster is aware of this AUR package, and was requesting to have ibus-m17n package be moved into one of the official repositories.

Last edited by zodmaner (2010-06-05 14:39:25)

psyomn

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Registered: 2010-06-02

Posts: 4

Re: ibus-m17n for repos?

Eh sorry, I fail at reading.