How To Install hunspell-en-us on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install hunspell-en-us on Kali Linux.

What is hunspell-en-us

hunspell-en-us is:

This is the English_american dictionary for use with the hunspell spellchecker

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-en-us 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 hunspell-en-us 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-en-us using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install hunspell-en-us

Install hunspell-en-us Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install hunspell-en-us using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install hunspell-en-us

Install hunspell-en-us 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 hunspell-en-us using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install hunspell-en-us

How To Uninstall hunspell-en-us on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the hunspell-en-us package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove hunspell-en-us

Uninstall hunspell-en-us And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove hunspell-en-us

Remove hunspell-en-us Configurations and Data

To remove hunspell-en-us configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge hunspell-en-us

Remove hunspell-en-us configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge hunspell-en-us

Dependencies

hunspell-en-us have the following dependencies:

• dictionaries-common

References

• hunspell-en-us website

Summary

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