input nightmare

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Mon Aug 11 03:13:31 UTC 2014


On 8/9/2014 10:46 PM, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:
> 
> (2014/08/10 12:24), NoOp wrote:
>> Apparently I am missing something, but I after DAYS still not figure out
>> what that "something" is ...
>>
>> Sorry Thomas, but I do not know enough to assist further. The
>> configuration worked for me. Not sure that it matters, but this 14.04 is
>> an upgrade from 12.04 - later I'll try a fresh 14.04 in a VM & see if I
>> can replicate. In the interim, you might search launchpad to see if you
>> can find an ibus bug report.
>>
>>
> Thank you. I really appreciate your help.
> Since the "ordinary" setup did not work, I tried to execute a command to 
> install Ibus (as I found it in some online documentation)

Where did you find this?

> This brings up a long list of error that make absolutely no sense to me, 
> but I will copy them here.
> Maybe somebody knows what they mean.
> The suggestion at the end of that list ... could not yet try, since I 
> follow Mr. Proven's advise and am running a Mem test.
> It runs already for 12.5 hours and there is no telling when it will end ...
> XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX    copy XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
> thomas at einklang:~$ sudo apt-get install ibus
> [sudo] password for thomas:
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer 
> required:
>    hyphen-en-us libreoffice-help-de libreoffice-help-en-gb
>    libreoffice-help-en-us libreoffice-help-ja libreoffice-l10n-de
>    libreoffice-l10n-en-gb libreoffice-l10n-en-za libreoffice-l10n-ja
>    mythes-en-au openoffice.org-hyphenation
> Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
> The following extra packages will be installed:
>    dconf-cli gir1.2-ibus-1.0 ibus-gtk ibus-gtk3 libibus-1.0-5
> Suggested packages:
>    ibus-clutter ibus-doc ibus-qt4
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>    dconf-cli gir1.2-ibus-1.0 ibus ibus-gtk ibus-gtk3 libibus-1.0-5
> 0 upgraded, 6 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 400 kB of archives.
> After this operation, 2,320 kB of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
> Err http://jp.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main libibus-1.0-5 i386 
> 1.5.5-1ubuntu3
>    Could not resolve 'jp.archive.ubuntu.com'
> Err http://jp.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main dconf-cli i386 0.20.0-1
>    Could not resolve 'jp.archive.ubuntu.com'
<snipped>
> 
> E: Failed to fetch 
> http://jp.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/i/ibus/ibus-gtk3_1.5.5-1ubuntu3_i386.deb 
> Could not resolve 'jp.archive.ubuntu.com'
> 
> E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with 
> --fix-missing?
> thomas at einklang:~$ ^C
> 
> XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX    copy XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
> This happened with THREE different distros:
> 1)    Tuxtrans (which is what I really wanted to use, but there are 
> apparently other things broken too), freshly downloaded + installed
> 2)    Ubuntu 14.04, freshly downloaded + installed
> 3)    Xubuntu 14.04, freshly downloaded + installed
> 
> Next I will try to find out about this "launchpad" thing ...
> Thomas
> 
> 

Thomas,

I just tested on a clean new 14.04 install (within a virtual machine)
and repeated the instructions from my first post - all works without
issue. iBus is *already* installed by default and you do not need to
install anything other than what gets installed when you:

"System Settings|Text Entry|Input sources to use: add Japanese if not
there already|click 'Show current input source in the menu bar' and you
should see the language icon on the top menu bar - click it & select
Japanse"

$ apt-cache policy ibus
ibus:
  Installed: 1.5.5-1ubuntu3
  Candidate: 1.5.5-1ubuntu3
  Version table:
 *** 1.5.5-1ubuntu3 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

> $ dpkg -l | grep ibus
> ii  gir1.2-ibus-1.0                                       1.5.5-1ubuntu3                                      i386         Intelligent Input Bus - introspection data
> ii  ibus                                                  1.5.5-1ubuntu3                                      i386         Intelligent Input Bus - core
> ii  ibus-gtk:i386                                         1.5.5-1ubuntu3                                      i386         Intelligent Input Bus - GTK+2 support
> ii  ibus-gtk3:i386                                        1.5.5-1ubuntu3                                      i386         Intelligent Input Bus - GTK+3 support
> ii  ibus-pinyin                                           1.5.0-1ubuntu1                                      i386         Pinyin engine for IBus
> ii  ibus-table                                            1.5.0.is.1.5.0.20130419-2                           all          table engine for IBus
> ii  libgusb2:i386                                         0.1.6-5                                             i386         GLib wrapper around libusb1
> ii  libibus-1.0-5:i386                                    1.5.5-1ubuntu3                                      i386         Intelligent Input Bus - shared library
> ii  libusb-0.1-4:i386                                     2:0.1.12-23.3ubuntu1                                i386         userspace USB programming library
> ii  libusb-1.0-0:i386                                     2:1.0.17-1ubuntu2                                   i386         userspace USB programming library
> ii  libusbmuxd2                                           1.0.8-2ubuntu1                                      i386         USB multiplexor daemon for iPhone and iPod Touch devices - library
> ii  libustr-1.0-1:i386                                    1.0.4-3ubuntu2                                      i386         Micro string library: shared library
> ii  python-ibus                                           1.5.5-1ubuntu3                                      all          Intelligent Input Bus - Python support

(the above 'ii' means that all are installed (by default).

When you run:
$ sudo apt-get install ibus

you should get the following (on a clean install):

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
ibus is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded.

So you need to purge the whatever the 'online' documentation said to
install and start over.

Launchpad ibus bug info:
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ibus>
questions here:
<https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ibus>





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