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How to type Malayalam in Ubuntu?

How I can type Malayalam language in Ubuntu 12.10? I used to use ibus with m17n library on my Ubuntu 12.04. But after a fresh installation of 12.10, m17n is no more available on ibus.

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Did you try to update the repository indexes? Its seems that ibus-m17 is now available for Quantal. To update use sudo apt-get update and then try to install the ibus-m17n package by using sudo apt-get install ibus-m17n. IF you're still unable to install the package, then manually download the package from the following link, and install it:

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Solved!! thanks. – Scorp Oct 22 '12 at 22:57
@Scorp, You're welcome. So did you do it manually or did the index update do the trick for you? – saji89 Oct 23 '12 at 5:03
after index update I reinstalled m17n again and now ibus works perfectly.. – Scorp Oct 28 '12 at 22:45
@Scorp, Thanks for the reply. :) – saji89 Oct 29 '12 at 7:34
Thanks a lot..i was searched for tamil :) – Desingh May 17 at 5:11

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