HOWTO: Installation of IBus and Keyman on Arch Linux and derivatives

Prerequisites

The instructions below are appropriate for ArchLinux, running KDE Plasma, Wayland, and sddm.

Installation steps

Upgrade the system

Any OS based on Arch Linux needs a regular full upgrade because of rolling release concept.

sudo pacman -Syyu

Install yay

Build and install a package manager to build and install packages from the ArchLinux User Repository (AUR). Keyman is provided by AUR. It possible to use other package managers than yay (like pamac).

sudo pacman -S --needed base-devel git
cd ~
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git
cd yay
makepkg -si

Install Keyman

sudo pacman -Sy webkit2gtk-4.1 python-setuptools
yay -Sy keyman

For further settings and configurations follow the steps 2 to 4 in the HOWTO: Using Keyman for Linux with KDE.

References

• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/IBus

(original version of this HOWTO in https://github.com/keymanapp/keyman/issues/1762)