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How to add Chinese Pinyin, Quanpin, shuangPin keyboard? Which Linux is the easiest on languages, keyboard layouts?
Is it possible to add Pinyin to PC LinuxOS, Gnome, KDE?

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You just need the scim-pinyin package. I believe it's available for many distributions.

I did so, but what then? Downloaded it to openSUSE Gnome HD, opened zipped file.
Many install and configure files. Can I run an executable installation file like in Windows?
[Modified by: grosser schwanz on May 01, 2008 07:34 AM]

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When you extract the tar.gz package:

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1. Open a terminal and type:
tar zxvf scim-1.4.7.tar.gz

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2. This creates a directory called scim-1.4.7. In this directory is a file called INSTALL that has more detailed installation instructions.

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cd scim-1.4.7
less INSTALL

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3. Basically you need to run these three commands to install it:
./configure
make
make install

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You will need to have the GCC compiler installed before you can run ./configure

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Also, are you running OpenSUSE or Fedora? 'Coz in your other thread we're discussing how to do this with Fedora.

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Cheers!

I chose KDE. The only problem I need to solve now, is layout variants. Somehow I lost smart pinyin and other variants of Chinese layout but default, basic and tib. Where to find options for adding variants?
Thanks in advance, you've helped a lot!