How To Install iamerican-insane on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install iamerican-insane on Ubuntu 18.04.
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 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 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 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 iamerican-insane using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install iamerican-insane
How To Uninstall iamerican-insane on Ubuntu 18.04
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 Ubuntu 18.04, 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 Ubuntu 18.04 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
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install iamerican-insane package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
