How To Install enchant-2 on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install enchant-2 on Kali Linux.

What is enchant-2

enchant-2 is:

Enchant is a generic spell checking library which uses existing spell checker engines such as ispell, aspell and myspell as its backends.

Enchant steps in to provide uniformity and conformity on top of these libraries, and implement certain features that may be lacking in any individual provider library.

This package contains standalone runtime binary programs.

There are three methods to install enchant-2 on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install enchant-2 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install enchant-2 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install enchant-2

Install enchant-2 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install enchant-2 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install enchant-2

Install enchant-2 Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install enchant-2 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install enchant-2

How To Uninstall enchant-2 on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the enchant-2 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove enchant-2

Uninstall enchant-2 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall enchant-2 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove enchant-2

Remove enchant-2 Configurations and Data

To remove enchant-2 configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge enchant-2

Remove enchant-2 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove enchant-2 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge enchant-2

Dependencies

enchant-2 have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libenchant-2-2
• libglib2.0-0

References

• enchant-2 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install enchant-2 package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.