How To Install libtest-spelling-perl on Debian 11

In this tutorial we learn how to install libtest-spelling-perl on Debian 11. libtest-spelling-perl is Perl module for spellchecking pod formatted text

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libtest-spelling-perl on Debian 11.

What is libtest-spelling-perl

libtest-spelling-perl is:

Test::Spelling lets you check the spelling of a POD file, and report its results in standard Test::More fashion. This module requires a spellcheck program such as spell, aspell, ispell, or hunspell.

You can add your own stopwords, which are words that should be ignored by the spell check. See libpod-spell-perl (which this module is built upon) for a variety of ways to add per-file stopwords to each .pm file. If you have a lot of stopwords, it’s useful to put them in your test file’s DATA section.

There are three methods to install libtest-spelling-perl on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libtest-spelling-perl Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install libtest-spelling-perl

Install libtest-spelling-perl Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libtest-spelling-perl using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libtest-spelling-perl

Install libtest-spelling-perl 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 libtest-spelling-perl using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libtest-spelling-perl

How To Uninstall libtest-spelling-perl on Debian 11

To uninstall only the libtest-spelling-perl package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libtest-spelling-perl

Uninstall libtest-spelling-perl And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libtest-spelling-perl and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libtest-spelling-perl

Remove libtest-spelling-perl Configurations and Data

To remove libtest-spelling-perl configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libtest-spelling-perl

Remove libtest-spelling-perl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libtest-spelling-perl configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libtest-spelling-perl

Dependencies

libtest-spelling-perl have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libtest-spelling-perl package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.