ibus is an Intelligent Input Bus. It is a new input framework for the Linux OS. It provides a fully featured and user friendly input method user interface.
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-9.0 platform.
Download (HTTP): https://github.com/ibus/ibus/releases/download/1.5.20/ibus-1.5.20.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: f4966898b6a87b3a5e1f723317e91811
Download size: 3.2 MB
Estimated disk space required: 73 MB (with tests)
Estimated build time: 0.5 SBU (with tests)
Download: https://www.unicode.org/Public/zipped/10.0.0/UCD.zip (Unicode Character Database)
DConf-0.32.0, ISO Codes-4.3, and Vala-0.44.7
gobject-introspection-1.60.2, GTK+-2.24.32, and libnotify-0.7.8
D-Bus Python-1.2.8 and PyGObject-3.32.2 (both to build the Python support library), GTK-Doc-1.32, PyXDG-0.25 (for the ibus-setup), and libxkbcommon-0.8.4, Wayland-1.17.0 (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
![[Note]](../images/note.png)
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/dconf/org.freedesktop.ibus.gschema.xml
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. One test may fail for unknown reasons.
Now, as the root user:
make install
--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 2019-08-18 13:33:32 -0700