How To Install enchant-2 on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install enchant-2 on Ubuntu 20.04. enchant-2 is Wrapper for various spell checker engines (binary programs) Wrapper for various spell checker engines (binary programs)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install enchant-2 on Ubuntu 20.04.

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. Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-core, xubuntu-desktop, lubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-desktop-core, ubuntustudio-desktop, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop

Package: enchant-2 Architecture: amd64 Version: 2.2.8-1 Priority: optional Section: text Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 64 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libenchant-2-2 (>= 2.2.3), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0) Filename: pool/main/e/enchant-2/enchant-2_2.2.8-1_amd64.deb Size: 12040 MD5sum: 48416d25aa45440c6a8b13da23024fc5 SHA1: e1d6a0b29c405145a8f7de34a27726982fb306be SHA256: b3f425b9871b826a11194ea14bc0f479a515273ff4f023b9395367dfa7503c9b Homepage: https://abiword.github.io/enchant/ Description-en: Wrapper for various spell checker engines (binary programs) 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.

There are three methods to install enchant-2 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 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 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 enchant-2 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install enchant-2

How To Uninstall enchant-2 on Ubuntu 20.04

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 Ubuntu 20.04, 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 Ubuntu 20.04 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

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install enchant-2 package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.