The .mim files in the /usr/share/m17n/ look fine. The installed-modules.scm file has the following: (define installed-im-module-list '("m17nlib")) (define enabled-im-list '()) (define system-available-im-list enabled-im-list) You can see that m17nlib is installed, but no m17n-*-* IM names appear in the enabled-im-list. Is there a clear solution to this? Maybe I misconfigured UIM at some point along the way? Or maybe it's basically just a problem with the ubuntu installation... thanks for everyone's feedback so far... Zach <div>On 12/10/06, Etsushi Kato <<a href="mailto:ek.kato@gmail.com">ek.kato@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On 12/10/06, Zach Rowinski <<a href="mailto:zach.rowinski@gmail.com">zach.rowinski@gmail.com </a>> wrote: > Is it possible that m17nlib.db was not configured correctly when it was > installed? > > > On 12/10/06, Zach Rowinski < <a href="mailto:zach.rowinski@gmail.com">zach.rowinski@gmail.com </a>> wrote: > > Thanks. Unfortunately, after some effort I can not configure the prefs so > that the m17n-*-* appears as an option in the 'Enabled Input Methods' field > in uim-pref-gtk window. I have tried to manually register the m17nlib based > on instructions from Hirosi in previous emails replies, but still have had > no luck. Hmm,  As Utumi-san said, something is broken about m17n related package in ubuntu. Check installed version of m17n-lib and m17n-db, and the existence of *.mim files in /usr/share/m17n/ directory which should be installed by m17n-db.  But I'm totally not sure about Debian/Ubuntu. And for uim-m17nlib, you can check whether it is properly registered by uim-module-manager with looking into /usr/share/uim/installed-modules.scm file.  If you have "m17nlib" in installed-im-module-list, and some m17n-*-* IM names in installed-im-list, your installation is fine. Cheers, -- Etsushi Kato <a href="mailto:ek.kato@gmail.com">ek.kato@gmail.com</a> </blockquote></div>