How to Install and Uninstall fcitx5-frontend-gtk2 Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: September 20,2024

1. Install "fcitx5-frontend-gtk2" package

This tutorial shows how to install fcitx5-frontend-gtk2 on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

$ sudo apt update $ sudo apt install fcitx5-frontend-gtk2

2. Uninstall "fcitx5-frontend-gtk2" package

Please follow the guidance below to uninstall fcitx5-frontend-gtk2 on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):

$ sudo apt remove fcitx5-frontend-gtk2 $ sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove

3. Information about the fcitx5-frontend-gtk2 package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: fcitx5-frontend-gtk2
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.0~git20200819.d26dd52-1
Multi-Arch: same
Priority: optional
Section: universe/utils
Source: fcitx5-gtk
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Input Method Team
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 53
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libfcitx5gclient1 (>= 0.0~git20200402.3e6795d), libfcitx5utils1 (>= 0.0~git20200626.2e9821a), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.16.0), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.24.0), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libx11-6, libxkbcommon0 (>= 0.5.0)
Filename: pool/universe/f/fcitx5-gtk/fcitx5-frontend-gtk2_0.0~git20200819.d26dd52-1_amd64.deb
Size: 12968
MD5sum: 20e8b86717698b1b7680d56b1ef5d86a
SHA1: 977a69edbefc58a4ce47dfa3a5d192c0ca02dcb7
SHA256: 39a5c82151cd0637183e5ee2df12fc30953c67492e39fea9772a0c4c37486804
SHA512: 4b6193098682498a483d0dcd5bd0d02b27f0f188faee594204c761411ee9f762910f8e7868ee92c0d2bbe1c5acbf9c72645e277b243a5ccda29bfe75cb892aa6
Homepage: https://github.com/fcitx/fcitx5-gtk
Description-en: GTK2 IM Module for fcitx5
Fcitx5 is the next generation of fcitx input method framework. It
provides plasant and modern input experience with intuitive graphical
configuration tools. The framework is highly extensible with support
for GTK+ and Qt toolkits, DBus interfaces, a large variety of desktop
environments and a developer-friendly API.
.
Some of its new features include support of both Wayland and Xorg
and the ability to mimic IBus Input Method Framework in order to
provide better compatibility across different Linux distributions
and desktop environments.
.
This package provides the im module of fcitx5. Users of GTK2-based
applications are highly recommended to have this package installed
for better input method support.
Description-md5: 683eef1e94d82d93eac409f87d1eec1c