You can install libuim(library), im-uim(gtk+-immodule) and other executables simply by typing $ configure; make # make install If your gtk+-2 is installed under /usr/ directory you may add --prefix=/usr and --sysconfdir=/etc option to configure script. Following components would be installed *Core library libuim* *Gtk+2 immodule im-uim.so *Helpers uim-helper-candwin-gtk uim-helper-toolbar-gtk uim-helper-toolbar-gtk-systray *XIM server(only for Japanese) uim-xim ---- If you simply want to test libuim and don't want to install, please execute test.sh script in the source directory. $ GTK_IM_MODULE=uim-py ./test.sh You can type Chinese by Pin Yin $ GTK_IM_MODULE=uim-anthy ./test.sh You can type Japanese by Anthy conversion system. Unless libanthy(Japanese conversion system library), You can type only Phonetic Symbols in Japanese. $ GTK_IM_MODULE=uim-skk ./test.sh You can type Japanese by SKK conversion system. this implementation assumes you have SKK dictionary at /usr/share/skk/SKK-JISYO.L