How To Install dict-gcide on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dict-gcide
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is dict-gcide
dict-gcide is:
This package contains the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English, formatted for use by the dictionary server in the dictd package. The GCIDE contains the full text of the 1913 Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary, supplemented by many definitions from WordNet, the Century Dictionary, 1906, and many additional definitions contributed by volunteers.
The definitions in the core of this dictionary are at least 85 years old, so they can not be expected to be politically correct by contemporary standards, and no attempt has been, or will be, made to make them so.
This package will be of limited use without the server found in the dictd package, or another RFC 2229 compliant server.
There are three methods to install dict-gcide
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install dict-gcide Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install dict-gcide
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install dict-gcide
Install dict-gcide Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install dict-gcide
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install dict-gcide
Install dict-gcide 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install dict-gcide
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install dict-gcide
How To Uninstall dict-gcide on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the dict-gcide
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove dict-gcide
Uninstall dict-gcide And Its Dependencies
To uninstall dict-gcide
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove dict-gcide
Remove dict-gcide Configurations and Data
To remove dict-gcide
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge dict-gcide
Remove dict-gcide configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove dict-gcide
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge dict-gcide
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dict-gcide
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.