How To Install wngerman on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install wngerman on Ubuntu 20.04. wngerman is New German orthography wordlist

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install wngerman on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is wngerman

wngerman is:

This is a wordlist with the new German orthography (de-DE-1996), which is used since 1998-08-01 and which is obligatory as of 2005-08-01.

It is based on the famous hkgerman dictionary (using the old German orthography (de-DE-1901), which is available as package wogerman), with many corrections and additions. Task: ubuntu-desktop-default-languages, ubuntu-mate-live

There are three methods to install wngerman on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install wngerman Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install wngerman

Install wngerman Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install wngerman

Install wngerman 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 wngerman using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install wngerman

How To Uninstall wngerman on Ubuntu 20.04

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

sudo apt-get remove wngerman

Uninstall wngerman And Its Dependencies

To uninstall wngerman and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove wngerman

Remove wngerman Configurations and Data

To remove wngerman configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge wngerman

Remove wngerman configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge wngerman

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install wngerman package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.