How To Install iamerican on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install iamerican
on Debian 9.
What is iamerican
iamerican is:
This package provides the standard, medium-sized American English dictionary, based on the americanmed+ dictionary supplied with the source for ispell, with additional words added from the more comprehensive wamerican word list package.
There are also -small, -large, -huge, and -insane versions of this dictionary, and there are ibritish* packages as well.
The package also suggests wamerican because ispell’s (L)ookup command needs a word list.
There are three methods to install iamerican
on Debian 9. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install iamerican Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install iamerican
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install iamerican
Install iamerican Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install iamerican
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install iamerican
Install iamerican 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 iamerican
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install iamerican
How To Uninstall iamerican on Debian 9
To uninstall only the iamerican
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove iamerican
Uninstall iamerican And Its Dependencies
To uninstall iamerican
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove iamerican
Remove iamerican Configurations and Data
To remove iamerican
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge iamerican
Remove iamerican configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove iamerican
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge iamerican
Dependencies
iamerican have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install iamerican
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.