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