How To Install hunspell-de-ch-frami on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install hunspell-de-ch-frami on Ubuntu 18.04. hunspell-de-ch-frami is German (Switzerland) dictionary for hunspell (frami version)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install hunspell-de-ch-frami on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is hunspell-de-ch-frami

hunspell-de-ch-frami is:

This is the German (Switzerland) dictionary for use with the hunspell spellchecker.

This package contains a enhanced version by Franz Michael Baumann with some words missing in the base dictionary or not (yet) belonging to the “core” German words.

Hunspell is a spell checker and morphological analyzer library and program designed for languages with rich morphology and complex word compounding or character encoding. It is based on MySpell and features an Ispell-like terminal interface using Curses library, an Ispell pipe interface and a LibreOffice UNO module.

There are three methods to install hunspell-de-ch-frami on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install hunspell-de-ch-frami Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install hunspell-de-ch-frami using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install hunspell-de-ch-frami

Install hunspell-de-ch-frami Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install hunspell-de-ch-frami using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install hunspell-de-ch-frami

Install hunspell-de-ch-frami 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 hunspell-de-ch-frami using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install hunspell-de-ch-frami

How To Uninstall hunspell-de-ch-frami on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the hunspell-de-ch-frami package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove hunspell-de-ch-frami

Uninstall hunspell-de-ch-frami And Its Dependencies

To uninstall hunspell-de-ch-frami and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove hunspell-de-ch-frami

Remove hunspell-de-ch-frami Configurations and Data

To remove hunspell-de-ch-frami configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge hunspell-de-ch-frami

Remove hunspell-de-ch-frami configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove hunspell-de-ch-frami configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge hunspell-de-ch-frami

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install hunspell-de-ch-frami package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.