Requirements: ibus should be install, Now a days it is available by default in all distros You should install indic-ibus-table first. This packages already present in Fedora. Fedora 14: $sudo yum --enablerepo=updates-testing install marathi-typing-booster -y Fedora 15 onwards $sudo yum install marathi-typing-booster -y For other distribution steps will be as follows Debian and Ubuntu for dependancies one need to install following packages sudo apt-get install autopoint libtool pkg-config autotools-dev automake ibus libibus-dev Then execute following steps 1) git clone http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/ibus-indic-table.git 2) cd ibus-indic-table/ibus-indic-table 3) ./autogen --prefix=/usr 4) make 5) sudo make install For Marathi 1) git clone http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/indic-typing-booster.git (it will take some time, due to large size) 2) cd indic-typing-booster/marathi-typing-booster/ 3) ./autogen --prefix=/usr 4) make 5) sudo make install 6) right click on ibus and restart it right click from preferences->language-> add lang-phonetic or lang-inscript layout 7) Done Now in text area enable select marathi-phonetic or marathi-inscript method and start using it. Introduction: Note: This is Beta release, please report any bugs enhancement suggestions at https://fedorahosted.org/indic-typing-booster/newticket marathi-typing-booster provides the following Marathi Typing Methods on IBus framework: * Marathi phonetic (itrans base) * Marathi inscript All above mentioned tables are released under GNU Public License version 3 or (at your option) any later version. Do subsribe to Devel https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/indic-typing-booster-devel if you have any patched or have any suggestions Project Sources Page https://fedorahosted.org/indic-typing-booster/ IBus Project Site http://code.google.com/p/ibus