How To Install enchant on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install enchant on Debian 9. enchant is Wrapper for various spell checker engines (binary programs)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install enchant on Debian 9.

What is enchant

enchant is:

Enchant is a generic spell checking library which uses existing spell checker engines such as ispell, aspell and myspell as its backends.

Enchant steps in to provide uniformity and conformity on top of these libraries, and implement certain features that may be lacking in any individual provider library.

This package contains standalone runtime binary programs.

There are three methods to install enchant 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 enchant Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install enchant using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install enchant

Install enchant Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install enchant using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install enchant

Install enchant 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 enchant using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install enchant

How To Uninstall enchant on Debian 9

To uninstall only the enchant package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove enchant

Uninstall enchant And Its Dependencies

To uninstall enchant and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove enchant

Remove enchant Configurations and Data

To remove enchant configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge enchant

Remove enchant configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove enchant configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge enchant

Dependencies

enchant have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install enchant package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.