How to install ibus-avro in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS?

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:

1. Get the latest release of Avro from GitHub (at this time, it is 2.1).

2. 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.

3. Go to System Settings -> Language Support from Unity Launcher

   • Look at the Keyboard input method system
   • Select IBus and close the window.

4. You may need to restart IBus to make everything work. Try the following command:

   ibus restart
   

   Otherwise a reboot may be required.

5. Go to System Settings -> Keyboard -> Text Entry.

   • Search for Avro Phonetic, and add it as input source.

Open a terminal and run these commands:

sudo apt install git ibus libibus-1.0-dev automake autoconf gjs ibus-1.0 gir1.2-ibus-1.0
cd /tmp
git clone https://github.com/sarim/ibus-avro.git
cd ibus-avro
aclocal && autoconf && automake --add-missing
./configure --prefix=/usr
sudo make install

This works on my Ubuntu MATE 16.04

N.B.: A restart might be required.