How To Install nuspell 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 nuspell on Ubuntu.
What is nuspell
nuspell 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 command-line program.
There are three methods to install nuspell 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 nuspell Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install nuspell using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nuspell
Install nuspell Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install nuspell using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nuspell
Install nuspell 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 nuspell using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nuspell
How To Uninstall nuspell on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the nuspell package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nuspell
Uninstall nuspell And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nuspell and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove nuspell
Remove nuspell Configurations and Data
To remove nuspell configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nuspell
Remove nuspell configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nuspell configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nuspell
Dependencies
nuspell have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nuspell package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.