This document is intended to help you to build and install scim-googlepinyin from scratch.
Scim-googlepinyin still has some critical bugs. And it is still under active development. I'd like to suggest you always try the latest version by:
$ git clone https://github.com/tchaikov/scim-googlepinyin.git $ cd scim-googlepinyin.git
If the git command is not available in your system, you may want to install it to continue checking out the source.
You will need install following package before building this software:
Although these packages' names vary, they are available on most GNU/Linux distribution. On Debian or Ubuntu, following command should work for you.
Install libtool and automake: sudo aptitude install libtool sudo apt-get install automake
$ aptitude install autotools-dev libgtk2.0-dev libscim-dev
Following commands installs scim-googlepinyin into your system.
$ ./autogen.sh $ make $ sudo make install