How To Install libnuspell5 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 libnuspell5 on Ubuntu.
What is libnuspell5
libnuspell5 is:
Nuspell is a free and open source spell checker that is written in modern C++. It is designed for languages with rich morphology and complex word compounding.
Main features are:
- Full unicode support backed by ICU
- Backward compatibility with Hunspell dictionary file format
- Twofold affix stripping (for agglutinative languages, like Azeri, Basque, Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Turkish, etc.)
- Support complex compounds (for example, Hungarian, German and Dutch)
- Support language specific features (for example, special casing of Azeri and Turkish dotted i, or German sharp s)
- Handle conditional affixes, circumfixes, fogemorphemes, forbidden words, pseudoroots and homonyms.
This package contains the shared library.
There are three methods to install libnuspell5 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 libnuspell5 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libnuspell5 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libnuspell5
Install libnuspell5 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libnuspell5 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libnuspell5
Install libnuspell5 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 libnuspell5 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libnuspell5
How To Uninstall libnuspell5 on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the libnuspell5 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libnuspell5
Uninstall libnuspell5 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libnuspell5 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libnuspell5
Remove libnuspell5 Configurations and Data
To remove libnuspell5 configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libnuspell5
Remove libnuspell5 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libnuspell5 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libnuspell5
Dependencies
libnuspell5 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libnuspell5 package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.