ibus, a new input framework

[Edward Cherlin]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 11:52 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta
<sayamindu at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I just came across ibus, an input framework which seems to be designed
> to be a better replacement for scim. A presentation is available
> online at http://ibus-user.googlegroups.com/web/ibus.pdf
> Has anyone used this ? Any comments on how well this works and how
> stable this is ?
> Thanks,
> Sayamindu

I'm on Debian Hardy. I compiled and installed Ibus, ibus-pinyin and
Ibus-tables (apparently) but I'm having trouble with the others. I
can't make the ibus-Hangul engine, and I can't make install
ibus-chewing. Ibus doesn't run. Some error communication:


mokurai at ubuntu:~/Desktop/ibus-hangul-0.1.1.20080823$ make
make  all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/mokurai/Desktop/ibus-hangul-0.1.1.20080823'
Making all in engine
make[2]: Entering directory
`/home/mokurai/Desktop/ibus-hangul-0.1.1.20080823/engine'
/usr/bin/swig -python -I/usr/include -o hangul_wrap.c ./hangul.i
/bin/bash ../libtool --tag=CC   --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.
-I..    -I/usr/include/hangul-1.0 -I/usr/include/python2.5
-I/usr/include/python2.5  -g -O2 -MT _hangul_la-hangul_wrap.lo -MD -MP
-MF .deps/_hangul_la-hangul_wrap.Tpo -c -o _hangul_la-hangul_wrap.lo
`test -f 'hangul_wrap.c' || echo './'`hangul_wrap.c
libtool: compile:  gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I..
-I/usr/include/hangul-1.0 -I/usr/include/python2.5
-I/usr/include/python2.5 -g -O2 -MT _hangul_la-hangul_wrap.lo -MD -MP
-MF .deps/_hangul_la-hangul_wrap.Tpo -c hangul_wrap.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o
.libs/_hangul_la-hangul_wrap.o
hangul_wrap.c:118:20: error: Python.h: No such file or directory
etc.

Where is Python.h supposed to come from?

...
make[1]: *** [_chewing_la-chewing_wrap.lo] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/home/mokurai/Desktop/ibus-chewing-0.1.1.20080823/engine'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1


mokurai at ubuntu:~/Desktop/ibus-chewing-0.1.1.20080823$ ibus
Starting ibus-daemon OK
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/share/ibus/daemon/ibusdaemon.py", line 28, in <module>
    import dbus.server
ImportError: No module named server
Start ibus-daemon failed

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