How To Install wamerican-large on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install wamerican-large on Kali Linux.

What is wamerican-large

wamerican-large is:

This package provides the file /usr/share/dict/american-english-large 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 a larger list than the one installed by wamerican; nothing prevents you installing both (and others) at the same time.

There are also -small and -huge version of this word list, and there are wbritish* and wcanadian* packages as well.

There are three methods to install wamerican-large on Kali Linux. 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-large 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-large using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install wamerican-large

Install wamerican-large Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install wamerican-large

Install wamerican-large Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install wamerican-large

How To Uninstall wamerican-large on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the wamerican-large package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove wamerican-large

Uninstall wamerican-large And Its Dependencies

To uninstall wamerican-large and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove wamerican-large

Remove wamerican-large Configurations and Data

To remove wamerican-large configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge wamerican-large

Remove wamerican-large configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge wamerican-large

Dependencies

wamerican-large have the following dependencies:

• dictionaries-common
• debconf

References

• wamerican-large website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install wamerican-large package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.