How To Install libhunspell-1.6-0 on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libhunspell-1.6-0 on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libhunspell-1.6-0
libhunspell-1.6-0 is:
Hunspell is a spell checker and morphological analyzer library and program designed for languages with rich morphology and complex word compounding or character encoding. It is based on MySpell and features an Ispell-like terminal interface using Curses library, an Ispell pipe interface and an OpenOffice.org UNO module.
Main features:
- Unicode support (first 65535 Unicode characters)
- morphological analysis (in custom item and arrangement style)
- Max. 65535 affix classes and twofold affix stripping (for agglutinative languages, like Azeri, Basque, Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Turkish, etc.)
- Support complex compoundings (for example, Hungarian and German)
- Support language specific algorithms (for example, handling Azeri and Turkish dotted i, or German sharp s)
- Handling conditional affixes, circumfixes, fogemorphemes, forbidden words, pseudoroots and homonyms.
This package contains the shared library.
There are three methods to install libhunspell-1.6-0 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 libhunspell-1.6-0 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libhunspell-1.6-0 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libhunspell-1.6-0
Install libhunspell-1.6-0 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libhunspell-1.6-0 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libhunspell-1.6-0
Install libhunspell-1.6-0 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 libhunspell-1.6-0 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libhunspell-1.6-0
How To Uninstall libhunspell-1.6-0 on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libhunspell-1.6-0 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libhunspell-1.6-0
Uninstall libhunspell-1.6-0 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libhunspell-1.6-0 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libhunspell-1.6-0
Remove libhunspell-1.6-0 Configurations and Data
To remove libhunspell-1.6-0 configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libhunspell-1.6-0
Remove libhunspell-1.6-0 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libhunspell-1.6-0 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libhunspell-1.6-0
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libhunspell-1.6-0 package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
