How To Install iamerican-huge on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install iamerican-huge on Debian 12.
What is iamerican-huge
iamerican-huge is:
This package provides the american-huge dictionary, based on the americanxlg+ dictionary supplied with the source for ispell, with additional words added from the more comprehensive wamerican-huge word list package.
This is an even larger dictionary than the one installed by iamerican-large. Nothing prevents you installing both (and others) at the same time.
There are also -small, -large, -insane, and standard versions of this dictionary, and there are ibritish* packages as well.
The package also suggests wamerican-huge because ispell’s (L)ookup command needs a word list.
There are three methods to install iamerican-huge on Debian 12. 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-huge 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-huge using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install iamerican-huge
Install iamerican-huge Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install iamerican-huge using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install iamerican-huge
Install iamerican-huge 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-huge using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install iamerican-huge
How To Uninstall iamerican-huge on Debian 12
To uninstall only the iamerican-huge package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove iamerican-huge
Uninstall iamerican-huge And Its Dependencies
To uninstall iamerican-huge and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove iamerican-huge
Remove iamerican-huge Configurations and Data
To remove iamerican-huge configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge iamerican-huge
Remove iamerican-huge configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove iamerican-huge configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge iamerican-huge
Dependencies
iamerican-huge have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install iamerican-huge package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
