How To Install ingerman on Debian 10

Learn how to install ingerman on Debian 10 with this tutorial. ingerman is New German orthography dictionary for ispell

Introduction

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

What is ingerman

ingerman is:

This is a dictionary for ispell for 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 iogerman), with many corrections and additions.

There are three methods to install ingerman 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 ingerman Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install ingerman

Install ingerman Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ingerman

Install ingerman 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 ingerman using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ingerman

How To Uninstall ingerman on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove ingerman

Uninstall ingerman And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ingerman

Remove ingerman Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge ingerman

Remove ingerman configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ingerman

Dependencies

ingerman have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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