How To Install iamerican-small on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install iamerican-small on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is iamerican-small
iamerican-small is:
This package provides the american-small dictionary, based on the americansml+ dictionary supplied with the source for ispell, with additional words added from the more comprehensive wamerican-small word list package.
This is smaller dictionary than the one installed by iamerican. Nothing prevents you installing both (and others) at the same time.
There are also -large, -huge, -insane, and standard versions of this dictionary, and there are ibritish* packages as well.
The package also suggests wamerican-small because ispell’s (L)ookup command needs a word list.
There are three methods to install iamerican-small 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-small 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-small using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install iamerican-small
Install iamerican-small Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install iamerican-small using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install iamerican-small
Install iamerican-small 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-small using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install iamerican-small
How To Uninstall iamerican-small on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the iamerican-small package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove iamerican-small
Uninstall iamerican-small And Its Dependencies
To uninstall iamerican-small and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove iamerican-small
Remove iamerican-small Configurations and Data
To remove iamerican-small configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge iamerican-small
Remove iamerican-small configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove iamerican-small configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge iamerican-small
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install iamerican-small package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
