Hello, I'm a newbie user of Linux Mint LMDE, and this is my first attempt to write a tutorial. I wanted to share this for anyone like me, specifically wanting to use Avro Keyboard for writing in Bangla on LMDE in applications such as LibreOffice, etc.

LMDE, by default, offers Bangla (Bengali) writing integration using different fully UNICODE-compliant keyboard patterns: Boisakhi, Bornona, Prabhat, and Gitanjali. All of these work smoothly on LibreOffice, provided if you are familiar with their keyboard layouts (These can be accessed from: Menu>Preferences>Keyboard>Layout Settings>Using the + sign at the left-hand corner of the window to add a preferred keyboard.)

As the ibus-avro has been designed primarily keeping Ubuntu users in mind, this tutorial is only for those wanting to try English to Bangla phonetic typing using the Avro Keyboard on LMDE systems. For regular Mint editions, visit the detailed tutorial created by users at the Bangla Linux Community forum  or by the Avro developers.

I don't know if there are shorter routes, but here is how it worked for me:

1) Go to Linux Mint's Software Manager from your computer's Menu, and search for these three packages and install them, one by one:

libgirepository1.0-dev

libgtk2.0-dev

libmojzs185-dev

libdbus-glib-1-dev

2) Download this file:  http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/g/gjs/gjs_1.32.0.orig.tar.xz. After download is complete, right click, and extract to a folder.

2) Inside the folder, right click and open a terminal. Type the following and press enter:

./configure

This will check for the required software needed to build the program.

3) If you'll receive an error message, saying you need to install certain software packages (something like "No package 'mozjs185' found", etc.) , install the needed packages by using the following command on your terminal

sudo apt-get install chowmein

where 'chowmein' stands for the package name. Accordingly, you install these packages using the following commands (when asked for yes/no options, type Y in caps)

4) Once you've fulfilled all dependencies, run ./configure again inside the folder mentioned in step 2. If configuration is successful, type  make in the terminal and press Enter. (This command compiles the program, and you'll end up with something like this.) 

5) The program is now successfully compiled, but not installed.To install it to your system, type this:

sudo make install

into the terminal and hit Enter.

6) The task is now more than half done, and the rest is easy. You install Ibus using the following command:

sudo apt-get install git ibus libibus-1.0-dev automake autoconf gjs gir1.2-ibus-1.0

7)  Install the following code to download, compile and install the ibus-avro (here's a screenshot):

 git clone git://github.com/sarim/ibus-avro.git
    cd ibus-avro
    aclocal && autoconf && automake --add-missing
    ./configure --prefix=/usr
    sudo make install

8) Now ibus-avro is installed, go to Menu and search for Ibus in the search bar. Go to Ibus Preferences>Select an Input Method>Bengali>Avro Phonetic (see screenshot), and it's done!

9) Open LibreOffice and start typing in phonetic Bengali (using the Cntrl+Space keys together as a toggle between Bengali and English keyboard layouts).

Thank you.