How To Install aspell.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install aspell.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. aspell.i686 is Spell checker

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install aspell.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `aspell.i686`

GNU Aspell is a spell checker designed to eventually replace Ispell. It can either be used as a library or as an independent spell checker. Its main feature is that it does a much better job of coming up with possible suggestions than just about any other spell checker out there for the English language, including Ispell and Microsoft Word. It also has many other technical enhancements over Ispell such as using shared memory for dictionaries and intelligently handling personal dictionaries when more than one Aspell process is open at once.

We can use yum to install aspell.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install aspell.i686.

Install aspell.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install aspell.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install aspell.i686

How To Uninstall aspell.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the aspell.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove aspell.i686

aspell.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/aspell
/usr/bin/ispell
/usr/bin/precat
/usr/bin/preunzip
/usr/bin/prezip
/usr/bin/prezip-bin
/usr/bin/run-with-aspell
/usr/bin/spell
/usr/bin/word-list-compress
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/ccpp.amf
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/comment.amf
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/context-filter.info
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/context-filter.so
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/cp1250.cmap
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/cp1250.cset
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/cp1251.cmap
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/cp1251.cset
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/cp1252.cmap
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/cp1252.cset
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/cp1253.cmap
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/cp1253.cset
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/cp1254.cmap
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/cp1254.cset
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/cp1255.cmap
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/cp1255.cset
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/cp1256.cmap
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/cp1256.cset
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/cp1257.cmap
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/cp1257.cset
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/cp1258.cmap
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/cp1258.cset
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/dvorak.kbd
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/email-filter.info
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/email-filter.so
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/email.amf
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/html-filter.info
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/html.amf
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-1.cmap
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-1.cset
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-10.cmap
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-10.cset
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-11.cmap
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-11.cset
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-13.cmap
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-13.cset
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-14.cmap
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-14.cset
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-15.cmap
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-15.cset
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-16.cmap
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-16.cset
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-2.cmap
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-2.cset
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-3.cmap
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-3.cset
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-4.cmap
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-4.cset
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-5.cmap
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-5.cset
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-6.cmap
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-6.cset
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-7.cmap
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-7.cset
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-8.cmap
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-8.cset
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-9.cmap
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-9.cset
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/koi8-r.cmap
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/koi8-r.cset
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/koi8-u.cmap
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/koi8-u.cset
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/none.amf
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/nroff-filter.info
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/nroff-filter.so
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/nroff.amf
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/perl.amf
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/sgml-filter.info
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/sgml-filter.so
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/sgml.amf
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/split.kbd
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/standard.kbd
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/tex-filter.info
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/tex-filter.so
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/tex.amf
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/texinfo-filter.info
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/texinfo-filter.so
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/texinfo.amf
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/url.amf
/usr/lib/libaspell.so.15
/usr/lib/libaspell.so.15.1.5
/usr/lib/libpspell.so.15
/usr/lib/libpspell.so.15.1.5
/usr/share/doc/aspell-0.60.6.1
/usr/share/doc/aspell-0.60.6.1/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/aspell-0.60.6.1/README
/usr/share/doc/aspell-0.60.6.1/TODO
/usr/share/doc/aspell-0.60.6.1/aspell-import
/usr/share/doc/aspell-0.60.6.1/aspell-import.1
/usr/share/info/aspell.info.gz
/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/aspell.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/aspell.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/aspell.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/aspell.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/aspell.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/aspell.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/aspell.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/aspell.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/aspell.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/aspell.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/aspell.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/aspell.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/aspell.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/aspell.mo
/usr/share/locale/mn/LC_MESSAGES/aspell.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/aspell.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/aspell.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/aspell.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/aspell.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/aspell.mo
/usr/share/locale/rw/LC_MESSAGES/aspell.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/aspell.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/aspell.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/aspell.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/aspell.mo
/usr/share/locale/tg/LC_MESSAGES/aspell.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/aspell.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/aspell.mo
/usr/share/locale/wa/LC_MESSAGES/aspell.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/aspell.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/aspell.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/prezip-bin.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/run-with-aspell.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/word-list-compress.1.gz

References

aspell.i686 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install aspell.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.