Nepali traditional keyboard for Ubuntu

Are you used to Windows and migrating from Windows to Linux ? If you are a  Nepali Traditional Unicode keyboard user, then you might have experienced lack of traditional keyboard in linux even though Ubuntu(the most popular Linux distro) comes packed with the romanized keyboard version. Traditional user finds the Romanized layout much harder to use. So, here is my solution to such users. 
First you need to have ibus installed on your system.Ubuntu comes pre-installed with ibus-setup. So you don't need to worry about it. Hit the following command one by one in terminal..


$ sudo apt-get install ibus-m17n
$ cd /usr/share/m17n/
$ sudo mv ne-trad.mim ne-trad.mim.bak
$ sudo wget https://shilantitaju.com.np/ne-trad.mim


That's all commands you need to type..Now restart the system. After restart press Alt+F2.
Type ibus-setup and hit enter.In the ibus preferences window, under Input Method tab, select Nepali -> trad(m17n). Now add the keyboard and You are good to go..:)

Note: The keyboard is tested under Ubuntu 14.04. But it must work good with other versions as well.Keep me notified.

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