How To Install ibritish-large on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ibritish-large on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is ibritish-large
ibritish-large is:
This package provides the british-large dictionary, based on the britishlrg+ dictionary supplied with the source for ispell, with additional words added from the more comprehensive wbritish-large word list package.
This is larger dictionary than the one installed by ibritish. 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 iamerican* packages as well.
The package also suggests wbritish-large because ispell’s (L)ookup command needs a word list.
There are three methods to install ibritish-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 ibritish-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 ibritish-large using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ibritish-large
Install ibritish-large Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ibritish-large using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ibritish-large
Install ibritish-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 ibritish-large using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ibritish-large
How To Uninstall ibritish-large on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the ibritish-large package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ibritish-large
Uninstall ibritish-large And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ibritish-large and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ibritish-large
Remove ibritish-large Configurations and Data
To remove ibritish-large configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ibritish-large
Remove ibritish-large configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ibritish-large configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ibritish-large
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ibritish-large package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
