scim-m17n not working in Ubuntu 14.04

[Swarup Dev]

trusty SRU request
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[Impact]
scim-m17n is broken in trusty. The IM engine is simply not available to scim, since the location of the m17n.so file is wrong.

[Test Case]
* Install scim and scim-m17n.
* Open scim-setup, and find that the input methods provided by scim-m17n are not available.
* Install the rebuilt scim-m17n package and re-login.
* The scim-m17n IMs are now available from scim-setup.

[Regression Potential]
None. This is a broken -> working case.

[Original description]
After installing the scim-m17n software, the languages are not available for use in scim. Even after activating scim, only English is available. All the Asian and other non-European languages which become availalbe through m17n, are remain unlisted. Of note, in a comment on this site [http://askubuntu.com/questions/165980/scim-input-method-not-working/454912#454912], Robert Siemer writes: "I could fix scim-m17n by moving m17n.so from /usr/lib/scim-1.0/1.4.0/IMEngine/ to /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/scim-1.0/1.4.0/IMEngine/". However I tried this, and it doesn't seem to have made any difference.

It should be added that for many writers of Asian languages, this scim-m17n is critically important to their work. I am one of those; for many years I have been typing using this system, and there is no viable alternative. The Ibus system does not provide for proper formatting of what is typed. So it is vitally important that this scim-m17n be made to work in 14.04. - Swarup

[Atul (atul-thakur)]

I am facing the same problem. After installing ubuntu 14.04, scim global setup lists no other languages other than English, in spite of installing Bengali in language settings. In ubuntu 12.04, this problem was not there.
How can this be fixed?
Regards,
-Atul

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Robert Siemer's solution seems to do the trick for me on a 32bit Ubuntu install. However, I think the right way to fix it is by rebuilding the package. Building it in the trusty or utopic environment results in a different location of the m17n.so file.

There is (soon) a test build of scim-m17n in my PPA at
https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/+archive/misc

Can you please install the package from there and let us know if it fixes the issue.

[Swarup Dev (swarup-bhai1)]

Yes, thank you-- it works perfectly! I have a 64-bit system, and that did the trick. I'll spread the good news.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Hi Swarup,

Good to hear that it worked.

Hopefully the fix will finally make it to the 14.04 archive. In the meantime I'll keep the rebuild in my PPA, so those affected can download it from there.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks, I've uploaded the trusty and utopic updates, unsubscribing sponsors

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package scim-m17n - 0.2.3-3build1

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scim-m17n (0.2.3-3build1) utopic; urgency=low

  * No-change rebuild so m17n.so gets installed in the correct folder
    and is found by scim-setup (LP: #1312517).
 -- Gunnar Hjalmarsson <email address hidden> Thu, 01 May 2014 23:26:00 +0200

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

I've accepted this into trusty-proposed and it should be available shortly.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

I installed scim-m17n 0.2.3-3build0.1 from trusty-proposed. That way the IMs provided by the package became available to the scim IM framework.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package scim-m17n - 0.2.3-3build0.1

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scim-m17n (0.2.3-3build0.1) trusty-proposed; urgency=low

  * No-change rebuild so m17n.so gets installed in the correct folder
    and is found by scim-setup (LP: #1312517).
 -- Gunnar Hjalmarsson <email address hidden> Thu, 01 May 2014 23:26:00 +0200

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for scim-m17n has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regresssions.