I have to struggle with this whenever I had a new Debian installation. SCIM does not work out of the box in Debian, so there’s some minor configurations to do. But I failed to note it down anywhere, just happily relying on Google.
So yet again, I have a new Debian Lenny installation on my new notebook. And the same story again, I got to search all over Google for the instructions to make it work. So this time round I decided to note it down here so that I can “Read My Own F$#king Manual” next time as well as for the benefit of others.
Step 1:
Install the fonts
aptitude install ttf-arphic-bkai00mp ttf-arphic-uming ttf-arphic-gkai00mp ttf-arphic-bsmi00lp ttf-arphic-gbsn00lp ttf-arphic-ukai xfonts-intl-chinese unifont ttf-unifont
Step 2:
Install all the scim related packages
aptitude install scim-pinyin uim-pinyin scim-uim scim-chinese scim-tables-zh
Step 3:
im-switch -c
Select scim and save.
Step 4:
Restart your session by logging out and logging in again.
You should have your SCIM work after that.