How To Install geany-plugin-spellcheck on Debian 10

Learn how to install geany-plugin-spellcheck on Debian 10 with this tutorial. geany-plugin-spellcheck is spellcheck plugin for Geany

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install geany-plugin-spellcheck on Debian 10.

What is geany-plugin-spellcheck

geany-plugin-spellcheck is:

Spellcheck is a plugin which checks the content of the current document in Geany with the spell check library Enchant. This plugin allows the whole document, or only a selection to be checked for spelling mistakes. Misspelt words are highlighted with a red squiggly underline, and wrong words are printed in Geany’s messages window along with available suggestions.

Geany is a small and lightweight integrated development environment using the Gtk+ toolkit.

There are three methods to install geany-plugin-spellcheck on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install geany-plugin-spellcheck Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install geany-plugin-spellcheck using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install geany-plugin-spellcheck

Install geany-plugin-spellcheck Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install geany-plugin-spellcheck using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install geany-plugin-spellcheck

Install geany-plugin-spellcheck 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install geany-plugin-spellcheck using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install geany-plugin-spellcheck

How To Uninstall geany-plugin-spellcheck on Debian 10

To uninstall only the geany-plugin-spellcheck package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove geany-plugin-spellcheck

Uninstall geany-plugin-spellcheck And Its Dependencies

To uninstall geany-plugin-spellcheck and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove geany-plugin-spellcheck

Remove geany-plugin-spellcheck Configurations and Data

To remove geany-plugin-spellcheck configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge geany-plugin-spellcheck

Remove geany-plugin-spellcheck configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove geany-plugin-spellcheck configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge geany-plugin-spellcheck

Dependencies

geany-plugin-spellcheck have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install geany-plugin-spellcheck package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.