Peter Evans
I believe that running canna and kinput2 will allow me to input Japanese when for example writing messages in Mozilla, and that kinput2 requires canna which should therefore be run first.
Yes.
http://www.suse.de/~mfabian/suse-cjk/canna.html tells me that I
can start the cannaserver with
~$ /etc/init.d/canna start
(Remember, you're dealing with a true dummy here: I don't even know the meaning of "~$".)
~$ is just an example for a prompt. The prompt may look different in your case, depending on your settings. Anyway, after some sort of prompt you enter your command.
In the console (or konsole), I change directory to /etc/init.d/ and type
canna start
and thereupon read: "Starting Canna Kanji Server [followed by a lot of spaces and then finally, in red:] failed"
Ah. Suggestions?
You have to do that as root. It fails because you are doing that as normal user. By the way, as root you have to type either the full path /etc/init.d/canna start or after changing directory to /etc/init.d type ./canna start because by default the current directory (.) is not in the search path for commands for the user root (for security reasons). To make canna start automatically during booting, type insserv -d canna (also as root). This will create the following runlevel links: mfabian@magellan:~$ find /etc/init.d/ -name "*canna*" /etc/init.d/rc3.d/S15canna /etc/init.d/rc3.d/K07canna /etc/init.d/rc5.d/S15canna /etc/init.d/rc5.d/K07canna /etc/init.d/canna mfabian@magellan:~$ and then canna will start automatically during booting. Instead of using the above commands in a terminal you can also use the runlevel editor of YaST2. There is a graphical user interface where you can select in which runlevels canna should start (usually 3 and 5) and you can start and stop it immediately with the YaST2 runlevel editor as well.
Already installed:
a2ps-perl-ja canna canna-libs cannadic ghostscript-cjk jfbterm jtools kde3-i18n-ja kinput2 kterm lv man-pages-ja nkf nvi-m17n nvi-m17n-canna sdb_en susehelp_en susetour_en termcap ttf-kochi-gothic ttf-kochi-mincho xfntjp xmanja yast2-trans-ja
Looks OK.
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Mike Fabian