After a long time, I’ve tried to do something for Avro in Linux. I know we’ve done a temporary solution. But believe me, that’s enough for now. According to Sarim Khan, he’s implementing Avro again from scratch in Go lang. I hope, within two or three months, we’ll get a new static binary of Avro what will be distro independent. But till then, try this way to get Avro installed in your Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.

Installation & Usage

Ubuntu (32/64-bit)

• Please run these commands from the terminal. Never forget to be in the relevant directory.

  $ sudo apt install gjs gir1.2-ibus-1.0 libibus-1.0-5 libibus-1.0-dev ibus-gtk ibus-gtk3 ibus-clutter ibus-qt4
  

  $ wget "https://github.com/maateen/avro/releases/download/v2.1/avro_2.1-3_all.deb"
  

  $ sudo dpkg -i avro_2.1-3_all.deb
  

  I hope, all is well now and the installation has been finished.

• Go to System Settings -> Language Support from Unity Launcher

• Look at the Keyboard input method system

• Select IBus and close the window.

• I believe that you need to restart IBus to make everything work fine. Try the following command:

  $ ibus restart
  

• Now go to System Settings -> Keyboard -> Text Entry

• Search and add Avro Phonetic as an input source.

• If you still can’t use Avro, please reboot your PC and try from 2 again. That’s all.

Contributors

• IBus Engine by Sarim Khan
• Avro JavaScript Phonetic Library by Rifat Nabi
• Avro Phonetic Dictionary Search Library by Mehdi Hasan Khan

License

Licensed under Mozilla Public License 1.1 (“MPL”), an open source/free software license.

For New Release

Just keep an eye here.

Got an issue?

Just open an issue here.