How To Install sonnet-plugins 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 sonnet-plugins on Ubuntu.
What is sonnet-plugins
sonnet-plugins is:
Sonnet is a Qt based library that offers easy access to spell checking using various plugin based backends. It is part of KDE Frameworks 5.
This package provides plugins used by Sonnet to interact with the following spell checking backends: aspell, hunspell or hspell. The dictionaries need to be installed separatedly.
There are three methods to install sonnet-plugins 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 sonnet-plugins Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install sonnet-plugins using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install sonnet-plugins
Install sonnet-plugins Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install sonnet-plugins using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install sonnet-plugins
Install sonnet-plugins 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 sonnet-plugins using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install sonnet-plugins
How To Uninstall sonnet-plugins on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the sonnet-plugins package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove sonnet-plugins
Uninstall sonnet-plugins And Its Dependencies
To uninstall sonnet-plugins and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove sonnet-plugins
Remove sonnet-plugins Configurations and Data
To remove sonnet-plugins configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge sonnet-plugins
Remove sonnet-plugins configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove sonnet-plugins configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge sonnet-plugins
Dependencies
sonnet-plugins have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sonnet-plugins package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.