How To Install iamerican-insane on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install iamerican-insane on Kali Linux. iamerican-insane is American English dictionary for ispell (insane version)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install iamerican-insane on Kali Linux.

What is iamerican-insane

iamerican-insane is:

This package provides the american-insane dictionary, based on the americanxlg+ dictionary supplied with the source for ispell, with additional words added from the more comprehensive wamerican-insane word list package.

This is an even larger dictionary than the one installed by iamerican-huge, and possibly contains invalid words (as well as words that are very uncommon). Nothing prevents you installing both (and others) at the same time.

There are also -small, -large, -huge, 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-insane 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 iamerican-insane 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-insane using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install iamerican-insane

Install iamerican-insane Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install iamerican-insane using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install iamerican-insane

Install iamerican-insane 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 iamerican-insane using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install iamerican-insane

How To Uninstall iamerican-insane on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the iamerican-insane package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove iamerican-insane

Uninstall iamerican-insane And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove iamerican-insane

Remove iamerican-insane Configurations and Data

To remove iamerican-insane configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge iamerican-insane

Remove iamerican-insane configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove iamerican-insane configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge iamerican-insane

Dependencies

iamerican-insane have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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