How To Install hunspell-tools on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install hunspell-tools on Kali Linux. hunspell-tools is tools for hunspell

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install hunspell-tools on Kali Linux.

What is hunspell-tools

hunspell-tools is:

Hunspell is a spell checker and morphological analyzer library and program designed for languages with rich morphology and complex word compounding or character encoding. It is based on MySpell and features an Ispell-like terminal interface using Curses library, an Ispell pipe interface and an OpenOffice.org UNO module.

Main features:

  • Unicode support (first 65535 Unicode characters)
  • morphological analysis (in custom item and arrangement style)
  • Max. 65535 affix classes and twofold affix stripping (for agglutinative languages, like Azeri, Basque, Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Turkish, etc.)
  • Support complex compoundings (for example, Hungarian and German)
  • Support language specific algorithms (for example, handling Azeri and Turkish dotted i, or German sharp s)
  • Handling conditional affixes, circumfixes, fogemorphemes, forbidden words, pseudoroots and homonyms.

This package contains a the munch/unmunch tools of hunspell and ispellaff2myspell for converting ispell affix files for myspell/hunspell format.

There are three methods to install hunspell-tools on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install hunspell-tools Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install hunspell-tools

Install hunspell-tools Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install hunspell-tools

Install hunspell-tools Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install hunspell-tools using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install hunspell-tools

How To Uninstall hunspell-tools on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the hunspell-tools package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove hunspell-tools

Uninstall hunspell-tools And Its Dependencies

To uninstall hunspell-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove hunspell-tools

Remove hunspell-tools Configurations and Data

To remove hunspell-tools configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge hunspell-tools

Remove hunspell-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge hunspell-tools

Dependencies

hunspell-tools have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install hunspell-tools package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.