How To Install iamerican-large on Kali Linux

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

Introduction

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

What is iamerican-large

iamerican-large is:

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

This is larger dictionary than the one installed by iamerican. Nothing prevents you installing both (and others) at the same time.

There are also -small, -huge, -insane, and standard versions of this dictionary, and there are ibritish* packages as well.

The package also suggests wamerican-large because ispell’s (L)ookup command needs a word list.

There are three methods to install iamerican-large 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-large 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-large using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install iamerican-large

Install iamerican-large Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install iamerican-large

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

sudo aptitude -y install iamerican-large

How To Uninstall iamerican-large on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove iamerican-large

Uninstall iamerican-large And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove iamerican-large

Remove iamerican-large Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge iamerican-large

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

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

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

Dependencies

iamerican-large have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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