Hello,
I just got an Eee PC 4G and installed eeebuntu on it (my first Linux, so I'm a noob), now I'd like to be able to type in Chinese pinyin with scim but I'm clueless on what I should do. I did some searching on forums and so far I understand that in, let's say, Ubuntu, you just have to enable Chinese in Language Support, or install packages like scim-pinyin etc. with Synaptic/terminal. So first of all, I could only find English in the add language menu, and secondly I can't find any scim ime packages in Synaptic (and using apt-get install scim-pinyin doesn't work), on Synaptic I only have im-switch, libscim8c2a, scim, scim-bridge agent, scim-bridge-client-gtk, scim-gtk2-immodule and scim-modules-socket.
I therefore downloaded scim-pinyin off the internet, and apparently to install it, I need to compile it (I'm used to Windows?). I followed the instructions given, but at the ./configure step it always stops with this message:
"checking for scim >= 1.2.0... Package scim was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `scim.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'scim' found
configure: error: Library requirements (scim >= 1.2.0) not met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them."
Well I tried, with my very limited Linux knowledge of course, to add scim.pc's directory to PKG_CONFIG_PATH by finding the directory with $whereis scim, and then $PKG_CONFIG_PATH={what whereis scim got me}, and other variations of this, but configure still doesn't work after hours of wearching and failing and it's driving me crazy...
So that's where I'm at, could some one please help me