Avro Phonetic Bangla typing for Linux

 Many of us have used Avro keyboard , the amazing bangla phonetic keyboard on windows. Folks like me who want to do everything under linux environment now have good news. Omnicronlab now started supporting my favorite linux distro Ubuntu. If you are running Ubuntu 12.10 or Ubuntu 12.04 LTS you can easily install this amazing application by simply adding their repo to your ubuntu install.

Installing ibus-avro on Ubuntu 12.10:

Open Terminal and enter the following commands one by one.

Step 1: Add ibus-avro repository

$ sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/sarimkhan/xUbuntu_12.10/ ./"

Step 2: Add key

$ wget -q http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/sarimkhan/xUbuntu_12.10/Release.key -O- | sudo apt-key add -

Step 3: Update package list

$ sudo apt-get update

  

Step 4: Install ibus-avro 

$ sudo apt-get install ibus-avro-quantal

Using ibus-avro

1. Run IBus (Applications -> System Tools -> IBus) from Dash
   
2. Open IBus Preferences from the top panel icon
   
3. Go to Input method, select Customize active input methods checkbox
   
4. Select an input method -> Bengali -> Avro
5. Now Click Add button to add Avro to the list
   
6. Now restart IBus from the top panel icon (Right Click -> Restart)
   
7. Open any text editing software (like, gedit). Now Press Ctrl+Space to toggle between English and Avro (Bengali)
8. Enjoy Avro Phonetic!
   

Setting IBus as default input method

You may want to set IBus as your default input method so that it starts automatically every time you log in.

1. Run Input Method Switcher (im-switch) from Dash
   
   
2. Select IBus
   
   
3. The following message will be shown. Log out and log in again.
   
   

Uninstalling ibus-avro

Step 1: Open Terminal and enter the following command:

sudo apt-get remove ibus-avro-quantal
 
Step 2: Restart IBus.

Installing ibus-avro on Ubuntu 12.04:

To install Avro keyborad under Ubuntu 12.04, you can follow the preveous steps by replacing "home:/sarimkhan/xUbuntu_12.10" with "home:/sarimkhan/xUbuntu_12.04" wherever required and to install it you have to replace "

sudo apt-get install ibus-avro-quantal" with "sudo apt-get install ibus-avro" .