How To Install wamerican-insane on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install wamerican-insane on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is wamerican-insane
wamerican-insane is:
This package provides the file /usr/share/dict/american-english-insane containing a list of English words with American spellings. This list can be used by spelling checkers, and by programs such as look(1).
This is an even larger list than the one installed by wamerican-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 and standard versions of this word list, and there are wbritish* and wcanadian* packages as well.
There are three methods to install wamerican-insane on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install wamerican-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 wamerican-insane using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install wamerican-insane
Install wamerican-insane Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install wamerican-insane using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install wamerican-insane
Install wamerican-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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install wamerican-insane using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install wamerican-insane
How To Uninstall wamerican-insane on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the wamerican-insane package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove wamerican-insane
Uninstall wamerican-insane And Its Dependencies
To uninstall wamerican-insane and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove wamerican-insane
Remove wamerican-insane Configurations and Data
To remove wamerican-insane configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge wamerican-insane
Remove wamerican-insane configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove wamerican-insane configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge wamerican-insane
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install wamerican-insane package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
