I’m using ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS for learning linux
I just wanted to install tamil keyboard with phonetic typing support
followed the steps mentioned in the blog and through stackoverflow and the keyboard installation posts already available in the community
I can’t figureout what is the problem in the installing the packages
i have manually found the m17-contrib package and downloaded .deb file and tried to install from software manager in ubuntu not able to install from it also
1st :
sudo apt-get update
2nd :
sudo apt-get install m17n-db
Maybe it will work.
before installing i have updated the the packages list then installed those updates there after only i have run the m17 installation command
there is no problem on installation of the m17n-db package
it seems problem with m17-contrib only
That repository is not available at Focal-Fossa.
Try to build and install it yourself.
sudo apt-get install ibus-m17 m17n-db
then,
git clone https://git.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/m17n-contrib
cd m17n-contrib
./configure
make
sudo make install
Note:
will try and let you know
@Sh4d0wS6 i have followed your steps to build and install the m17n-contrib package but still not able to install phonetic keyboard on my ubuntu
Only Tamil 99, Inscript , Tamil 99 TAB encoding and Tamil 99 TSCII encoding only available in input methods when choosing tamil (india) in language list
it seems like for ubuntu focal fossa not phonetic keyboard is not ready at the moment ?
is there any focal fossa users in the community please reply this thread
is there anyone installed phonetic keyboard also mention the steps you used in this thread
Please run the following command to check if the file is available or not:
ls /usr/share/m17n/ | grep “ta-”
If the ta-phonetic.mim file is not available, try copying it from the source location to
/usr/share/m17n/
