How To Install aspell.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install aspell.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. aspell.x86_64 is Spell checker

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install aspell.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `aspell.x86_64`

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.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install aspell.x86_64.

Install aspell.x86_64 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.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install aspell.x86_64

How To Uninstall aspell.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the aspell.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove aspell.x86_64

aspell.x86_64 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/lib64/aspell-0.60
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/ccpp.amf
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/comment.amf
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/context-filter.info
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/context-filter.so
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/cp1250.cmap
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/cp1250.cset
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/cp1251.cmap
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/cp1251.cset
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/cp1252.cmap
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/cp1252.cset
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/cp1253.cmap
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/cp1253.cset
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/cp1254.cmap
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/cp1254.cset
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/cp1255.cmap
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/cp1255.cset
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/cp1256.cmap
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/cp1256.cset
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/cp1257.cmap
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/cp1257.cset
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/cp1258.cmap
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/cp1258.cset
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/dvorak.kbd
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/email-filter.info
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/email-filter.so
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/email.amf
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/html-filter.info
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/html.amf
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-1.cmap
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-1.cset
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-10.cmap
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-10.cset
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-11.cmap
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-11.cset
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-13.cmap
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-13.cset
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-14.cmap
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-14.cset
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-15.cmap
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-15.cset
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-16.cmap
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-16.cset
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-2.cmap
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-2.cset
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-3.cmap
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-3.cset
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-4.cmap
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-4.cset
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-5.cmap
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-5.cset
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-6.cmap
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-6.cset
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-7.cmap
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-7.cset
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-8.cmap
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-8.cset
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-9.cmap
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/iso-8859-9.cset
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/koi8-r.cmap
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/koi8-r.cset
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/koi8-u.cmap
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/koi8-u.cset
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/none.amf
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/nroff-filter.info
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/nroff-filter.so
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/nroff.amf
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/perl.amf
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/sgml-filter.info
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/sgml-filter.so
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/sgml.amf
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/split.kbd
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/standard.kbd
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/tex-filter.info
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/tex-filter.so
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/tex.amf
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/texinfo-filter.info
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/texinfo-filter.so
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/texinfo.amf
/usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/url.amf
/usr/lib64/libaspell.so.15
/usr/lib64/libaspell.so.15.1.5
/usr/lib64/libpspell.so.15
/usr/lib64/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.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install aspell.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.