How To Install hunspell on Fedora 34

hunspell is A spell checker and morphological analyzer library A spell checker and morphological analyzer library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install hunspell on Fedora 34.

What is hunspell

Hunspell is a spell checker and morphological analyzer library and program designed for languages with rich morphology and complex word compounding or character encoding. Hunspell interfaces Curses library, Ispell pipe interface, LibreOffice UNO module. hunspell 1.7.0 9.fc34 x86_64 330 k hunspell-1.7.0-9.fc34.src.rpm fedora A spell checker and morphological analyzer library https LGPLv2+ or GPLv2+ or MPLv1.1 Hunspell is a spell checker and morphological analyzer library and program designed for languages with rich morphology and complex word compounding or character encoding. Hunspell interfaces Curses library, Ispell pipe interface, LibreOffice UNO module.

We can use yum or dnf to install hunspell on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install hunspell.

Install hunspell on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install hunspell using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install hunspell

Install hunspell on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install hunspell using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install hunspell

How To Uninstall hunspell on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove hunspell

hunspell Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/hunspell
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2e
/usr/lib/.build-id/2e/03445d1b50f452843e15ae0de17f5064b7951a
/usr/lib/.build-id/92
/usr/lib/.build-id/92/5a3b65e36e06d46d61edb73e5a6684c51b92ec
/usr/lib64/libhunspell-1.7.so.0
/usr/lib64/libhunspell-1.7.so.0.0.1
/usr/share/doc/hunspell
/usr/share/doc/hunspell/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/hunspell/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/hunspell/COPYING.LESSER
/usr/share/doc/hunspell/COPYING.MPL
/usr/share/doc/hunspell/README
/usr/share/doc/hunspell/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/hunspell/license.hunspell
/usr/share/doc/hunspell/license.myspell
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/hunspell.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/hunspell.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/hunspell.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/hunspell.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/hunspell.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/hunspell.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/hunspell.mo
/usr/share/locale/tg/LC_MESSAGES/hunspell.mo
/usr/share/man/hu/man1/hunspell.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/hunspell.1.gz
/usr/bin/hunspell
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/3d
/usr/lib/.build-id/3d/1efcce77b05fb7fe7ca65a33286e471875f76f
/usr/lib/.build-id/ec
/usr/lib/.build-id/ec/629a147fe69117d6c20967c0ea341887c90065
/usr/lib/libhunspell-1.7.so.0
/usr/lib/libhunspell-1.7.so.0.0.1
/usr/share/doc/hunspell
/usr/share/doc/hunspell/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/hunspell/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/hunspell/COPYING.LESSER
/usr/share/doc/hunspell/COPYING.MPL
/usr/share/doc/hunspell/README
/usr/share/doc/hunspell/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/hunspell/license.hunspell
/usr/share/doc/hunspell/license.myspell
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/hunspell.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/hunspell.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/hunspell.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/hunspell.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/hunspell.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/hunspell.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/hunspell.mo
/usr/share/locale/tg/LC_MESSAGES/hunspell.mo
/usr/share/man/hu/man1/hunspell.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/hunspell.1.gz

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install hunspell on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.