Important note:
Avro Phonetic has now been made available to Ubuntu users via an official package.
To install it:
sudo apt install ibus-avro
ibus-avro in the Ubuntu archive installs the latest upstream software, including a bugfix which is important to Ubuntu users. The GitHub repo referred to in step 1 and 2 below is in read-only mode, and not useful any longer.
Previous answer:
Get the latest release of Avro from GitHub (at this time, it is 2.1).
Install the package:
sudo dpkg -i avro_*_all.deb
If you get any dependency errors, run the following command:
sudo apt-get install -f
The installation should now be finished.
Go to System Settings -> Language Support from Unity Launcher
- Look at the Keyboard input method system
- Select IBus and close the window.
You may need to restart IBus to make everything work. Try the following command:
ibus restart
Otherwise a reboot may be required.
Go to System Settings -> Keyboard -> Text Entry.
- Search for Avro Phonetic, and add it as input source.
This seems to happen because of the new XKB symbols file bn which was created as a fix of this bug. As far as I can tell that file is redundant, since the name of the layout - Malay (Jawi) - is already present in the symbols file my. Currently there are two entries named Malay (Jawi) in the list of input sources.
Anyway, removing or renaming the bn symbols file seems to fix this issue.
cd /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols
sudo mv bn bn.bak
Edit:
I filed this bug, which has been accepted and will affect version 2.21 of xkb-data.
Edit II:
The issue is also about to be fixed in v2 of ibus-avro.
Edit III:
It seems moving the file make wayland session on latest Ubuntu inaccessible. Also the developers of ibus-avro suggested another workaround which fixes the issue without interfering with wayland session. This is documented here
In short, you need to edit the file at /usr/share/ibus/component/ibus-avro.xml
sudo vim /usr/share/ibus/component/ibus-avro.xml
On line 20, change
<layout>bn</layout>
to
<layout>us</layout>
Save the file and restart your session.
Best Answer
I am using Avro in 18.04 LTS and it's working.
Here is the steps you need to follow.
Go to Language Support. Click install/remove languages.
Select Bangla from the list and click apply. After installing Bangla language support you should start installing Avro.
The resulting window should look like this:
Download and install avro from here on GitHub. I use 2.0 version
You will see some missing packages. To install those, run the following command:
Restart
ibusNow go to Settings > Region and language > Add an input source > Bangla > Bengali (Avro Phonetic)
Enjoy typing Bangla in Avro keyboard.