How To Install hunspell on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install hunspell on Ubuntu.
What is hunspell
hunspell is:
Hunspell is a spell checker and morphological analyzer library and program designed for languages with rich morphology and complex word compounding or character encoding. It is based on MySpell and features an Ispell-like terminal interface using Curses library, an Ispell pipe interface and an OpenOffice.org UNO module.
Main features:
- Unicode support (first 65535 Unicode characters)
- morphological analysis (in custom item and arrangement style)
- Max. 65535 affix classes and twofold affix stripping (for agglutinative languages, like Azeri, Basque, Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Turkish, etc.)
- Support complex compoundings (for example, Hungarian and German)
- Support language specific algorithms (for example, handling Azeri and Turkish dotted i, or German sharp s)
- Handling conditional affixes, circumfixes, fogemorphemes, forbidden words, pseudoroots and homonyms.
This package contains the program with the Ispell-like terminal and pipe interfaces.
There are three methods to install hunspell on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install hunspell Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install hunspell using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install hunspell
Install hunspell Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install hunspell using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install hunspell
Install hunspell Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install hunspell using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install hunspell
How To Uninstall hunspell on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the hunspell package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove hunspell
Uninstall hunspell And Its Dependencies
To uninstall hunspell and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove hunspell
Remove hunspell Configurations and Data
To remove hunspell configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge hunspell
Remove hunspell configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove hunspell configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge hunspell
Dependencies
hunspell have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install hunspell package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.