Installing Avro in 18.04 LTS

I am using Avro in 18.04 LTS and it's working.

Here is the steps you need to follow.

  1. Go to Language Support. Click install/remove languages.

    Language support dialog

  2. Select Bangla from the list and click apply. After installing Bangla language support you should start installing Avro.

    Installed Languages dialog

  3. The resulting window should look like this:

    Language Support dialog with Bangla

  4. Download and install avro from here on GitHub. I use 2.0 version

    sudo dpkg -i avro_2.0-1_all.deb
    
  5. You will see some missing packages. To install those, run the following command:

    sudo apt-get install -f
    
  6. Restart ibus

    ibus restart
    
  7. Now go to Settings > Region and language > Add an input source > Bangla > Bengali (Avro Phonetic)

    Add an input source dialog

  8. Enjoy typing Bangla in Avro keyboard.


You may have run into a bug, which now has been fixed.

Avro Phonetic has recently been made available to Ubuntu users via an official package, which includes that bugfix.

To install it:

sudo apt install ibus-avro

After that add input source by following steps:

  • Log out and log in again
  • Settings > Region and language > Add an input source > Bangla (or Other) > Bangla (Avro Phonetic)