How To Install aspell on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install aspell on CentOS 7.
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. 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 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install aspell.
Install aspell on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install aspell using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install aspell
Install aspell on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install aspell using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install aspell
How To Uninstall aspell on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the aspell package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove aspell
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install aspell on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
