How To Install hime-gtab2cin on CentOS 8

One-liner Install Command

If you are only interested in the installation command, here is a quick answer for you:

sudo yum makecache && sudo yum -y install hime

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install hime

But if you are interested in the details with step-by-step instructions, the following information will be helpful.

What is hime-gtab2cin and How to Install It?

First things first, you will need access to a server or computer running CentOS 8. This guide was written specifically with a server running CentOS 8 in mind, although it should also work on older, supported versions of the operating system.

Also, make sure you are running a regular, non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your server. When you have an account available, log in as your non-root user to begin.

There are several ways to install hime-gtab2cin on CentOS 8. You can use (links are clickable):

In the following sections, we will describe each method in detail. You can choose one of them or refer to the recommended one.

Install hime-gtab2cin on CentOS 8 using dnf

First, update dnf packages database with dnf by running the next command:

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating database, You can install hime-gtab2cin using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install hime

Install hime-gtab2cin on CentOS 8 using yum

Because hime-gtab2cin is available in CentOS 8’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the yum packaging system.

To begin, update local packages database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

Now can install hime-gtab2cin package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install hime

How to upgrade (update) a single package hime-gtab2cin using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

If you want to update a specific package like hime-gtab2cin in this example you should use the following command:

yum update hime

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade hime

How to Upgrade hime-gtab2cin on CentOS 8 with dnf?

When you run the dnf update, all system packages with available updates are updated. However, if you want to upgrade a single package, then you would have to pass the package name as the argument to the dnf update command.

dnf update hime

How To remove hime-gtab2cin from CentOS 8

To uninstall only the hime-gtab2cin package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove hime

Extra info and code examples

HIME Input Method Editor is a input method platform, which is forked from the famous gcin input method. To use HIME, the correspondence immodule packages also need to be installed. They are: * hime-gtk2-immodule for GTK2 * hime-gtk3-immodule for GTK3 * hime-qt4-immodule for Qt4 * hime-qt5-immodule for Qt5

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install hime-gtab2cin using dnf and yum package managers. Also, we showed how to update manually as a single package and different ways to uninstall the hime-gtab2cin from CentOS 8.

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