How To Install spell 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 spell on Ubuntu.
What is spell
spell is:
GNU Spell is a spell checking program which prints each misspelled word on a line of its own. It is designed as a clone of the standard Unix
spell' program, and implemented as a wrapper for Ispell. Spell accepts as its arguments a list of files to read from. Within that list, the magical file name-’ causes Spell to read from standard input. In addition, when called with no file name arguments, Spell assumes that it should process standard input.
There are three methods to install spell 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 spell Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install spell using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install spell
Install spell Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install spell using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install spell
Install spell 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 spell using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install spell
How To Uninstall spell on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the spell package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove spell
Uninstall spell And Its Dependencies
To uninstall spell and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove spell
Remove spell Configurations and Data
To remove spell configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge spell
Remove spell configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove spell configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge spell
Dependencies
spell have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install spell package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.