Ted Carnahan

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.

Well, we’re deep in the dank murky corners of the different Greek verb forms in week 3 of summer Greek. One of my classmates commented that he’s about to “Greek Out,” and I liked that phrase so much that I named this Koine Greek verb quiz program after it.

As I understand it, we need to be able to take the other principle parts of various verbs and remember which verb (especially irregular ones) goes with which first principle part. So feel free to Greek Out on this verb recognition quiz.