How To Install wamerican-large 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 wamerican-large on Ubuntu.
What is wamerican-large
wamerican-large is:
This package provides the file /usr/share/dict/american-english-large containing a list of English words with American spellings. This list can be used by spelling checkers, and by programs such as look(1).
This is a larger list than the one installed by wamerican; nothing prevents you installing both (and others) at the same time.
There are also -small and -huge version of this word list, and there are wbritish* and wcanadian* packages as well.
There are three methods to install wamerican-large 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 wamerican-large Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install wamerican-large using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install wamerican-large
Install wamerican-large Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install wamerican-large using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install wamerican-large
Install wamerican-large 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 wamerican-large using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install wamerican-large
How To Uninstall wamerican-large on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the wamerican-large package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove wamerican-large
Uninstall wamerican-large And Its Dependencies
To uninstall wamerican-large and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove wamerican-large
Remove wamerican-large Configurations and Data
To remove wamerican-large configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge wamerican-large
Remove wamerican-large configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove wamerican-large configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge wamerican-large
Dependencies
wamerican-large have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install wamerican-large package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.