How To Install sonnet-plugins on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install sonnet-plugins on Debian 9. sonnet-plugins is spell checking library for Qt, plugins

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install sonnet-plugins on Debian 9.

What is sonnet-plugins

sonnet-plugins is:

Sonnet is a Qt based library that offers easy access to spell checking using various plugin based backends. It is part of KDE Frameworks 5.

This package provides plugins used by Sonnet to interact with the following spell checking backends: aspell, hunspell or hspell. The dictionaries need to be installed separatedly.

There are three methods to install sonnet-plugins on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install sonnet-plugins Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install sonnet-plugins

Install sonnet-plugins Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install sonnet-plugins

Install sonnet-plugins 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 sonnet-plugins using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install sonnet-plugins

How To Uninstall sonnet-plugins on Debian 9

To uninstall only the sonnet-plugins package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove sonnet-plugins

Uninstall sonnet-plugins And Its Dependencies

To uninstall sonnet-plugins and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove sonnet-plugins

Remove sonnet-plugins Configurations and Data

To remove sonnet-plugins configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge sonnet-plugins

Remove sonnet-plugins configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge sonnet-plugins

Dependencies

sonnet-plugins have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install sonnet-plugins package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.