How To Install wamerican-huge on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install wamerican-huge on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is wamerican-huge
wamerican-huge is:
This package provides the file /usr/share/dict/american-english-huge containing a list of English words with American spellings. This list can be used by spelling checkers, and by programs such as look(1).
This is an even larger list than the one installed by wamerican-large; nothing prevents you installing both (and others) at the same time.
There are also -small and standard versions of this word list, and there are wbritish* and wcanadian* packages as well.
There are three methods to install wamerican-huge 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 wamerican-huge Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install wamerican-huge using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install wamerican-huge
Install wamerican-huge Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install wamerican-huge using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install wamerican-huge
Install wamerican-huge 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 wamerican-huge using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install wamerican-huge
How To Uninstall wamerican-huge on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the wamerican-huge package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove wamerican-huge
Uninstall wamerican-huge And Its Dependencies
To uninstall wamerican-huge and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove wamerican-huge
Remove wamerican-huge Configurations and Data
To remove wamerican-huge configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge wamerican-huge
Remove wamerican-huge configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove wamerican-huge configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge wamerican-huge
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install wamerican-huge package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
