Installing ibus-avro in Ubuntu 12.10

Avro OmicronLab is one of the best software to write Bengali using phonetic key board. Previously avro was not available for ibus (now default input method for Ubuntu) in Linux, But recently they made it available for ibus which is known as ibus-avro. It was working fine with Ubuntu 12.04, but due to some dependency problem it has stopped working with Ubuntu 12.10. Also reinstalling from .deb file or form official repository is not possible because of the same dependency problem. When trying to install from deb file or from repo, the following error message I was getting: From the error message it is clear that the problem is with a package, name gir1.2-gjsdbus-1.0, which is a part of ibus-avro. Fortunately ibus-avro can be installed without gir1.2-gjsdbus-1.0 This is suggested by Sarim in an issue raised by Syfulsharif on the github.com. Here I will tell you the step by step installation process.
Step 1
First install the following package git libibus-1.0-0 libibus-1.0-dev ibus automake autoconf gjs gir1.2-ibus-1.0 using the command bellow, 
sudo apt-get install git ibus libibus-1.0-dev automake autoconf gjs gir1.2-ibus-1.0
Step 2
Now download the source code using git clone command. Which will create a folder named "ibus-avro" and clone exactly what is there in remote server. Use the following code 
git clone git://github.com/sarim/ibus-avro.git
Step 3
Now install the package using the following code, 
cd ibus-avro
aclocal && autoconf && automake --add-missing
./configure --prefix=/usr
sudo make install

Activating

Now to activate ibus-avro
1. Run IBus (application -> System tools -> IBus) from dash
2. Open IBus preference from the panel.
3. Go to input method
4. select an input method -> Bengali -> Avro
5. Now click to Add button.
6. Now restart IBus (Right click -> Restart)
7. You can turn of or on Bengali input by pressing ctrl + space

Enjoy Bengali writing in Ubuntu 12.10

Cheers
A.Paul

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