A new way to learn the installation of ‘Tamil 99 Keyboard’ on Debian and Debian based Distrios.

sudo apt install ibus-m17n

By using this command on the terminal we can install Tamil99 keyboard in our system.

1. Navigate to the Settings and go to ‘IBus Preferences’.
2. Go tho Input Method and select ‘Add’ button.
3. Select the More option mentioned ( 3 Dots) and choose the language as Tamil.
4. Select Tamil (TamilNet 99) and click ‘Add’ and close the windoow.
5. Now you can choose the language in the Keyboard Preference on Desktop to Tamil or English.

This is one of the Pure Layout for the language Tamil.
If you want to use Tamil Phonetic Layout use this command line in the terminal.

NOTE : IF YOU ALREADY INSTALLED THE ABOVE COMMAND,LEAVE THE LAST PACKAGE “ibus-m17n” below and install remaining packages.

sudo apt-get install m17n-db m17n-contrib ibus-m17n

The methods are same as mentioned above.

Select [ Tamil – ta-phonetic (m17n) as input method to use phonetic layout.

Thanks to Kaniyam ‘Shrinivasan’ for getting me this information.

A new way to learn the installation of ‘Tamil 99 Keyboard’ on Debian and Debian based Distrios.

sudo apt install ibus-m17n

By using this command on the terminal we can install Tamil99 keyboard in our system.

1. Navigate to the Settings and go to ‘IBus Preferences’.
2. Go tho Input Method and select ‘Add’ button.
3. Select the More option mentioned ( 3 Dots) and choose the language as Tamil.
4. Select Tamil (TamilNet 99) and click ‘Add’ and close the windoow.
5. Now you can choose the language in the Keyboard Preference on Desktop to Tamil or English.

This is one of the Pure Layout for the language Tamil.
If you want to use Tamil Phonetic Layout use this command line in the terminal.

NOTE : IF YOU ALREADY INSTALLED THE ABOVE COMMAND,LEAVE THE LAST PACKAGE “ibus-m17n” below and install remaining packages.

sudo apt-get install m17n-db m17n-contrib ibus-m17n

The methods are same as mentioned above.

Select [ Tamil – ta-phonetic (m17n) as input method to use phonetic layout.

Thanks to Kaniyam ‘Shrinivasan’ for getting me this information.