How To Install dict-freedict-eng-afr on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dict-freedict-eng-afr
on Debian 9.
What is dict-freedict-eng-afr
dict-freedict-eng-afr is:
This is the English-Afrikaans dictionary from the FreeDict project in version 0.1.1 (FreeDict status: small). It contains 6400 headwords. It can be used for the dict server in conjunction with a dict client.
There are three methods to install dict-freedict-eng-afr
on Debian 9. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install dict-freedict-eng-afr Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install dict-freedict-eng-afr
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install dict-freedict-eng-afr
Install dict-freedict-eng-afr Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install dict-freedict-eng-afr
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install dict-freedict-eng-afr
Install dict-freedict-eng-afr 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install dict-freedict-eng-afr
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install dict-freedict-eng-afr
How To Uninstall dict-freedict-eng-afr on Debian 9
To uninstall only the dict-freedict-eng-afr
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove dict-freedict-eng-afr
Uninstall dict-freedict-eng-afr And Its Dependencies
To uninstall dict-freedict-eng-afr
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove dict-freedict-eng-afr
Remove dict-freedict-eng-afr Configurations and Data
To remove dict-freedict-eng-afr
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge dict-freedict-eng-afr
Remove dict-freedict-eng-afr configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove dict-freedict-eng-afr
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge dict-freedict-eng-afr
Dependencies
dict-freedict-eng-afr have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dict-freedict-eng-afr
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.