How To Install ibritish-insane on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install ibritish-insane on Debian 9. ibritish-insane is British English dictionary for ispell (insane version)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ibritish-insane on Debian 9.

What is ibritish-insane

ibritish-insane is:

This package provides the british-insane dictionary, based on the britishxlg+ dictionary supplied with the source for ispell, with additional words added from the more comprehensive wbritish-insane word list package.

This is an even larger dictionary than the one installed by ibritish-huge, and possibly contains invalid words (as well as words that are very uncommon). Nothing prevents you installing both (and others) at the same time.

There are also -small, -large, -huge, and standard versions of this dictionary, and there are iamerican* packages as well.

The package also suggests wbritish-huge because ispell’s (L)ookup command needs a word list.

There are three methods to install ibritish-insane 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 ibritish-insane Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install ibritish-insane

Install ibritish-insane Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ibritish-insane

Install ibritish-insane 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 ibritish-insane using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ibritish-insane

How To Uninstall ibritish-insane on Debian 9

To uninstall only the ibritish-insane package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove ibritish-insane

Uninstall ibritish-insane And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ibritish-insane

Remove ibritish-insane Configurations and Data

To remove ibritish-insane configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ibritish-insane

Remove ibritish-insane configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ibritish-insane

Dependencies

ibritish-insane have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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