SCIM Packages for RHEL 4

About
Currently available packages:
RHEL4 repos
News
Support
Configuration
up2date setup
Installation
Desktop setup
Credits

About

This is a yum repository of SCIM packages for Red Hat Enterprise 4 i386 and x86_64, currently based on the scim packages in Fedora Extras 3.

Note SCIM does not build on older versions of RHEL because the gtk2 version is too old.

(The main scim packages are now included in Fedora Extras (FC3 and FC4) and Fedora Core (FC5). The old scim repos for Fedora Core hosted here is now deprecated, gone and replaced by the FedoraExperimental repos of experimental packages.)

Please do not report issues related to this repo to Red Hat bugzilla: they are unsupported, and you may use them at your own risk but you can report problems to petersen@redhat.com.

Currently available packages:

Japanese: scim-anthy, anthy, kasumi, (scim-skk), (scim-tomoe)
Korean: scim-hangul
simplified Chinese: scim-pinyin, (scim-fcitx), (scim-tables-chinese)
traditional Chinese: scim-chewing, libchewing, (scim-tables-chinese)
other/misc: scim-m17n, m17n-db, m17n-lib, (scim-input-pad),
general: scim, (scim-qtimm)

(Packages in parentheses are available from Fedora Extras.)

RHEL4 repos

The package repos are here. The srpms are available from FE3.

News

- 2006-03-23: FE3 scim-qtimm doesn't seem to work on RHEL4 so removed it for now

- 2006-03-14: scim-m17n-0.2.0, m17n-lib-1.3.3, m17n-db-1.3.3 from FE3

- 2006-02-26: updated to scim-1.4.4, scim-anthy-0.9.0, kasumi-1.0, and added scim-m17n-0.1.4, m17n-db-1.2.0 and m17n-lib-1.2.0 from FE3; rewrote this main page as RHEL4 only and separated fedora info to new experimental page.

- 2005-11-10: added stable repo for RHEL 4 based on currently FE3 packages

Support

The packages here are unsupported and without warranty, but feel free to report problems or feedback on them to petersen@redhat.com.

Configuration

up2date setup

To use the yum repository with up2date and the rhn applet, add the following line to "/etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources" for i386:
yum scim http://people.redhat.com/petersen/scim/el4/i386/

or for x86_64:

yum scim http://people.redhat.com/petersen/scim/el4/x86_64/

You also need to import the Fedora Extras Key that the packages are signed with by executing as root:

# rpm --import http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/RPM-GPG-KEY-Fedora-Extras

Installation

Now you should be able to run

# up2date -i scim-<IME>

where <IME> is one of anthy, chewing, hangul, m17n, or pinyin. For m17n you also need to install one or more m17n-db-<lang> packages.

Desktop setup

If you don't run your desktop in an Asian locale, you need to run:
$ mkdir -p ~/.xinput.d
$ ln -s /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/scim ~/.xinput.d/default

to have scim start by default on your desktop.

Credits

I would like to thank the upstream scim packagers for many of the initial spec files that these packages are based on.