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