How To Install aspell on CentOS 8
aspell is Spell checker Spell checker
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install aspell on CentOS 8.
What is aspell
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. aspell 12 0.60.6.1 21.el8 x86_64 675 k aspell-0.60.6.1-21.el8.src.rpm appstream Spell checker http LGPLv2+ and LGPLv2 and GPLv2+ and BSD 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 or dnf to install aspell on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install aspell.
Install aspell on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install aspell using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install aspell
Install aspell on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install aspell using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install aspell
How To Uninstall aspell on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the aspell package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove aspell
aspell Package Contents on CentOS 8
/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/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0a
/usr/lib/.build-id/0a/bc808d15fd4e861c07004ed3347332bf922d8c
/usr/lib/.build-id/5d
/usr/lib/.build-id/5d/f515be7310fdeaf70889268708580fa7f18b56
/usr/lib/.build-id/66
/usr/lib/.build-id/66/ccf0dfadb282a31bfa9a2bd58102e27e589667
/usr/lib/.build-id/6d
/usr/lib/.build-id/6d/f52ff07e7041cce6f3c27e51f50cf5e5a8d5c0
/usr/lib/.build-id/83
/usr/lib/.build-id/83/6838db6b60d4b548fc9f71e4b7cb063cf80d62
/usr/lib/.build-id/8e
/usr/lib/.build-id/8e/f1712e1670e2903f0613eb538fee49c3f9a285
/usr/lib/.build-id/90
/usr/lib/.build-id/90/01ec344a8329306573741f022adfc75f4704d6
/usr/lib/.build-id/b4
/usr/lib/.build-id/b4/14eb86e58f207ddb8d485c5a8b490982d96c52
/usr/lib/.build-id/c2
/usr/lib/.build-id/c2/009c38e4b35cc53483643b707d97988a98e3fa
/usr/lib/.build-id/cb
/usr/lib/.build-id/cb/8732e5c4d07d4ea94d8b205c49aa7b44f0e397
/usr/lib/.build-id/d4
/usr/lib/.build-id/d4/5eb931c270aad2a84cf18364778f36de03eb1e
/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
/usr/share/doc/aspell/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/aspell/README
/usr/share/doc/aspell/TODO
/usr/share/doc/aspell/aspell-import
/usr/share/doc/aspell/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
/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/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/40
/usr/lib/.build-id/40/946beee439aa341b2d9cb86aad7078f50fdcda
/usr/lib/.build-id/51
/usr/lib/.build-id/51/9994f5248d6c954d03524531c66b2d6a333d61
/usr/lib/.build-id/70
/usr/lib/.build-id/70/cc2b6626a7c4f3a19063194c7407d2b90b08bb
/usr/lib/.build-id/72
/usr/lib/.build-id/72/a859b80c2e5f18c3d560ae2442eace38fbb06a
/usr/lib/.build-id/76
/usr/lib/.build-id/76/c7913d4d9fe0ed3df8df0adde3cc2a5b92dee2
/usr/lib/.build-id/93
/usr/lib/.build-id/93/3794b61ed8b1473a85abd553358c2560f6411e
/usr/lib/.build-id/ae
/usr/lib/.build-id/ae/948a3bd3be6faf120d154f8abd7170449b738b
/usr/lib/.build-id/dc
/usr/lib/.build-id/dc/d591bbc64454e78ed2ce7272202989dc71fcb3
/usr/lib/.build-id/ed
/usr/lib/.build-id/ed/4cb82cdef8a555a9f4673fdcf804439ffcf86f
/usr/lib/.build-id/f2
/usr/lib/.build-id/f2/ba6a4ef965b5b66e7848186694925712fe9cf9
/usr/lib/.build-id/f7
/usr/lib/.build-id/f7/543814604a81565a5849d1d9c4cdb4f3cf804a
/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
/usr/share/doc/aspell/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/aspell/README
/usr/share/doc/aspell/TODO
/usr/share/doc/aspell/aspell-import
/usr/share/doc/aspell/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 website](http://aspell.net/ http://aspell.net/)
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install aspell on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.