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Koine Greek in Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon

Here’s the simple process for installing Koine Greek input method support for Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon:

  1. Make sure you have scim installed
  2. Add this repository to your apt sources: deb http://packages.sil.org/ubuntu gutsy main
  3. sudo aptitude update
  4. sudo aptitude install scim-kmfl-imengine kmflcomp
  5. Download scim-greek-koine.tar.gz, which contains a KMFL engine file I got from somewhere else that I have modified to work.
  6. Extract the tarfile and compile the kmfl file by running kmflcomp GrkPolyComp.KMN
  7. Run scim-setup, click on the new “KMFL” option, click install, browse to the GrkPolyComp.kmfl file you just compiled.

It was a twisty road to get to this point, so if it doesn’t work for you, post in the comments and I’ll try to help you work it out.

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7 Responses to “Koine Greek in Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon”


  • Aethralis
    November 28th, 2007 02:56
    1

    Thank you very much, this worked out perfectly! Hope you don’t mind I’m posting this (with a link to you page of-course) to ubuntuforums, as it seems people have problems with getting SCIM and kmfl working together.

  • Doug Rintoul
    December 10th, 2007 15:12
    2

    Just wanted to let you know that step 6 is not strictly necessary. kmfl will load uncompiled kmn files just fine so there is no need to compile the keyboard beforehand.

  • Jonathan
    September 5th, 2008 14:21
    3

    Thanks. Great instruction. Two notes (by my own trial and error):
    1. Make sure and use the gutsy repository, not hardy. I tried hardy and it seems to be working… but nothing happens. My bad.

    2. Requires system restart, not just application restart.

  • Biblical Hebrew in Ubuntu Hardy Heron | Ted Carnahan
    October 10th, 2008 14:04
    4

    [...] go install SCIM as described in my instructions on installing Koine Greek, steps 1-4 (but replace gutsy with [...]

  • John
    December 9th, 2008 09:37
    5

    Followed the instructions and all seemed to go smoothly, but still can’t type in Greek or Hebrew after rebooting. GRk keyboard option produces some strange Icelandic looking script ( ŋðŋđðŋđŋ µø) and Hebrew I can’t even find.

    As a novice I have not a clue what to do next - apart from reluctantly returning to Windows where I know how to get these things working. Would be grateful for any thoughts. Thanks

  • John
    December 10th, 2008 08:02
    6

    Just to say that a prompt and helpful reply from Ted has got me sorted. I’m very grateful

  • Ted Carnahan
    December 10th, 2008 08:04
    7

    I’m glad it worked out. Here’s the email I sent to him for posterity’s sake:

    Under FrontEnd-Global Setup, make sure your Keyboard Layout is something sane (I wonder if English/US vs. English/UK would make a difference?). Under IMEngine-Global Setup, you might want to disable everything except English/European and Greek (polytonic precomposed) Unicode to make sure there aren’t any problems there. If that doesn’t help, perhaps sending along a screenshot would be helpful.

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