How To Install r-cran-hunspell on Debian 12

Learn how to install r-cran-hunspell on Debian 12 with this tutorial. r-cran-hunspell is GNU R support for high-performance stemmer, tokenizer, and spell checker

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install r-cran-hunspell on Debian 12.

What is r-cran-hunspell

r-cran-hunspell is:

Low level spell checker and morphological analyzer based on the famous ‘hunspell’ library https://hunspell.github.io. The package can analyze or check individual words as well as parse text, LaTeX, html or xml documents. For a more user-friendly interface use the ‘spelling’ package which builds on this package to automate checking of files, documentation and vignettes in all common formats.

There are three methods to install r-cran-hunspell 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 r-cran-hunspell Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install r-cran-hunspell

Install r-cran-hunspell Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install r-cran-hunspell using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install r-cran-hunspell

Install r-cran-hunspell 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 r-cran-hunspell using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install r-cran-hunspell

How To Uninstall r-cran-hunspell on Debian 12

To uninstall only the r-cran-hunspell package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove r-cran-hunspell

Uninstall r-cran-hunspell And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove r-cran-hunspell

Remove r-cran-hunspell Configurations and Data

To remove r-cran-hunspell configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge r-cran-hunspell

Remove r-cran-hunspell configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove r-cran-hunspell configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge r-cran-hunspell

Dependencies

r-cran-hunspell have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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