How To Install iamerican on Debian 10

Learn how to install iamerican on Debian 10 with this tutorial. iamerican is American English dictionary for ispell (standard version)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install iamerican on Debian 10.

What is iamerican

iamerican is:

This package provides the standard, medium-sized American English dictionary, based on the americanmed+ dictionary supplied with the source for ispell, with additional words added from the more comprehensive wamerican word list package.

There are also -small, -large, -huge, and -insane versions of this dictionary, and there are ibritish* packages as well.

The package also suggests wamerican because ispell’s (L)ookup command needs a word list.

There are three methods to install iamerican on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install iamerican Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install iamerican

Install iamerican Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install iamerican

Install iamerican 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install iamerican

How To Uninstall iamerican on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove iamerican

Uninstall iamerican And Its Dependencies

To uninstall iamerican and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove iamerican

Remove iamerican Configurations and Data

To remove iamerican configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge iamerican

Remove iamerican configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge iamerican

Dependencies

iamerican have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install iamerican package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.