ibus is an Intelligent Input Bus. It is a new input framework for Linux OS. It provides a full featured and user friendly input method user interface.
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-8.3 platform.
Download (HTTP): https://github.com/ibus/ibus/releases/download/1.5.19/ibus-1.5.19.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: a2be6f200dd9ada2501474a6877a73ef
Download size: 2.7 MB
Estimated disk space required: 73 MB (with tests)
Estimated build time: 0.6 SBU (with tests)
Download: https://www.unicode.org/Public/zipped/10.0.0/UCD.zip (Unicode Character Database)
DConf-0.28.0, ISO Codes-3.79, and Vala-0.40.8
gobject-introspection-1.56.1, GTK+-2.24.32, and libnotify-0.7.7
D-Bus Python-1.2.8 and PyGObject-3.28.3 (both to build the Python support library), GTK-Doc-1.28, PyXDG-0.25 (for the ibus-setup), and libxkbcommon-0.8.2, Wayland-1.15.0 (both to build the Wayland support programs), and EmojiOne
User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/ibus
If the optional Unicode Character Database was downloaded, install
it now as the as the root
user:
mkdir -p /usr/share/unicode/ucd && unzip -u ../UCD.zip -d /usr/share/unicode/ucd
Be sure to also remove the disable-unicode-dict in the configure step below.
Fix an issue with deprecated schema entries:
sed -i 's@/desktop/ibus@/org/freedesktop/ibus@g' \ data/ibus.schemas.in \ data/dconf/org.freedesktop.ibus.gschema.xml.in
Install ibus by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr \ --sysconfdir=/etc \ --disable-unicode-dict \ --disable-emoji-dict && rm -f tools/main.c && make
To test the results, issue: make -k check. Some tests may fail for unknown reasons.
Now, as the root
user:
make install
sed -ri ... data/ibus.schemas ...: This sed fixes deprecated entries in the gsettings schema templates installed by this package.
--disable-emoji-dict
: This
switch disables the use of emoticon dictionaries. Omit if you
installed the optional package.
--disable-unicode-dict
:
This switch disables the use of unicode dictionaries. Omit if you
installed the optional Unicode Character Database.
rm -f tools/main.c: This command removes a generated file that was not removed when packaging.
--disable-gtk2
: This switch disables
building the GTK+ 2 immodule. Use
it if you have not installed GTK+
2.
--enable-python-library
: This switch
enables building the Python
support library. Use it if have installed the optional
dependencies.
--enable-wayland
: This switch enables
building the Wayland support
programs. Use it if you have installed the optional dependencies.
--with-python=python3
: This switch
makes the configure
script look for Python 3. Use it
if you want to build the Python 3
support library alongside the Python
2 one.
--enable-gtk-doc
: Use this parameter if
GTK-Doc is installed and you wish
to rebuild and install the API documentation.
Last updated on 2018-08-22 06:32:30 -0700