How To Install libnuspell5 on Debian 12

Learn how to install libnuspell5 on Debian 12 with this tutorial. libnuspell5 is spell checker (shared library)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libnuspell5 on Debian 12.

What is libnuspell5

libnuspell5 is:

Nuspell is a free and open source spell checker that is written in modern C++. It is designed for languages with rich morphology and complex word compounding.

Main features are:

  • Full unicode support backed by ICU
  • Backward compatibility with Hunspell dictionary file format
  • Twofold affix stripping (for agglutinative languages, like Azeri, Basque, Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Turkish, etc.)
  • Support complex compounds (for example, Hungarian, German and Dutch)
  • Support language specific features (for example, special casing of Azeri and Turkish dotted i, or German sharp s)
  • Handle conditional affixes, circumfixes, fogemorphemes, forbidden words, pseudoroots and homonyms.

This package contains the shared library.

There are three methods to install libnuspell5 on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libnuspell5 Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libnuspell5 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libnuspell5

Install libnuspell5 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libnuspell5 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libnuspell5

Install libnuspell5 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install libnuspell5 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libnuspell5

How To Uninstall libnuspell5 on Debian 12

To uninstall only the libnuspell5 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libnuspell5

Uninstall libnuspell5 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libnuspell5 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libnuspell5

Remove libnuspell5 Configurations and Data

To remove libnuspell5 configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libnuspell5

Remove libnuspell5 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libnuspell5 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libnuspell5

Dependencies

libnuspell5 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libnuspell5 package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.