Installing scim and skim on slackware 11.0 based on my experience

今日 げんようび, 十九 十一月 二〇〇七

Those are my japanese’ writing using SCIM and SKIM.

SCIM also has plenty of language that have been supported.

such Amharic, Arabic , Bengali, Gujarati, Japanese, Hindi, Kannada, Korean, Malayalam, Rusian, Punjabi, Tamili, Telugu, Thai, Vietnamese, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Tradisional, and other……….

 

And SKIM supported

zh_TW.Big5,zh_TW,zh_HK.Big5-HKSCS,
zh_HK,zh_CN.GB18030,zh_CN.GBK,zh_CN.GB2312,zh_CN,
ja_JP.eucJP,ja_JP.ujis,ja_JP,ko_KR.eucKR,ko_KR

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[[PACKAGE REQUIRED]]

 

- scim-1.4.7.tar.gz

- scim-tables-0.5.7.tar.gz

- skim-1.4.5.tar.bz2

- anty-9100.tar.gz

- scim-anthy-1.2.4.tar.gz

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[[SUPPORT PACKAGE REQUIRED]]

 

- checkinstall

note: you could find checkinstall-*.tgz on the Slackware 11.0 on “extra” package include on Slackware 11.0 DVD, or you get it from this site

http://packages.slackware.it/browse.php?q=11.0/extra

 

[[HOW TO INSTALL]]

 

[checkinstall]

 

# installpkg checkinstall-1.6.0-i486-2.tgz

 

[scim]

 

# tar zxf scim-1.4.7.tar.gz

# cd scim-1.4.7

# ./configure

# make

# checkinstall

# installpkg scim-1.4.7-i386-1.tgz

 

[scim-tables]

 

# tar zxf scim-tables-0.5.7.tar.gz

# cd scim-tables-0.5.7

# ./configure

# make

# checkinstall scim-tables-0.5.7-i386-1.tgz

 

[skim]

 

# tar xjf skim-1.4.5.tar.bz2

# cd skim-1.4.5

# ./scons

# ./scons install

 

[anthy]

 

# tar zxf anthy-9100.tar.gz

# cd anthy-9100

# ./configure

# make

# checkinstall

# installpkg anthy-9100-i386-1.tgz

 

[scim-anthy]

 

# tar zxf scim-anthy-1.2.4.tar.gz

# cd scim-anthy-1.2.4

# ./configure

# make

# checkinstall

# installpkg scim-anthy-9100-i386-1.tgz

 

[ Configurations ]


Log in as your user (if you want user can use skim)
If you want your root can run the skim, please log in as “root”

 

Edit file ~/.xinitrc

# vi ~/.xinitrc
put these lines on before “startkde” commands

export XMODIFIERS=”@im=SCIM”

export LC_CTYPE=”ja_JP.ujis”

export GTK_IM_MODULE=”scim”

export QT_IM_MODULE=”xim”


Log in as root

Edit file /etc/gtk-2.0/gtk.immodules
# vi /etc/gtk-2.0/gtk.immodules

put these lines on /etc/gtk-2.0/gtk.immodules


“/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/immodules/im-scim.so”

“scim” “SCIM” “gtk20″ “/usr/share/locale” “ja:en:th:zh:ko”

Log in as “root”
Edit file /etc/rc.local
# vi /etc/rc.local
put these lines

scim

skim

Restart your PC

To run the skim press Ctrl+Space
In this experiment, I only managed to get one language works besides
english, this happen to SKIM but SCIM manage to use all language that provided by scim-tables and anthy

On SKIM, if you want to change the language, you can change the
LC_CTYPE environtment
with one of these languages that been supported

zh_TW.Big5,zh_TW,zh_HK.Big5-HKSCS,
zh_HK,zh_CN.GB18030,zh_CN.GBK,zh_CN.GB2312,zh_CN,
ja_JP.eucJP,ja_JP.ujis,ja_JP,ko_KR.eucKR,ko_KR


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