Building and installing ibus-typing-booster on Ubuntu

Question

Context

I'm trying to install ibus-typing-booster for Hindi:

• Downloaded the source from https://github.com/mike-fabian/ibus-typing-booster/archive/2.6.4.zip
• Checked & satisfied all dependencies: ibus >= 1.5.3, libm17n-0, m17n-db, python3 >= 3.3, python3-dbus, python3-xdg

• Executed the commands:

  ./autogen.sh
  ./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib/ibus
  make
  make check
  make install
  

• Here is the build log: http://p.ip.fi/96W1 Everything seems ok

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Issue

But I cannot see the ibus-typing-booster preferences in the Applications, all that is new is an emoji picker

I rebooted the system and tried to get this (Typing Booster) or this (Hunspell) but instead got this none of which give suggestions while typing.

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My system info, ibus info

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Footnote

Related: install ibus-typing-booster on Ubuntu (for which some links in the answer section are either broken or retired).

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

ibus-typing-booster is now available in Ubuntu repositories in all currently supported versions of Ubuntu.

Install ibus-m17n and ibus-typing-booster with dependencies.

In Settings > Region & Languages > Manage installed languages > language support >

1. install/remove language> select desired languages > apply

2. select ibus from the dropdown menu under Keyboard Input Method System

In Region Language > Input Sources > add an input source > three vertical dots > search with keyword "other" --> select other --> add typing booster from the list

Select typing booster keyboard in input source --> settings/preferences --> add the required dictionaries and input methods