How To Install wamerican-small on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install wamerican-small
on Debian 9.
What is wamerican-small
wamerican-small is:
This package provides the file /usr/share/dict/american-english-small 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 smaller list than the one installed by wamerican; nothing prevents you installing both (and others) at the same time.
There are also -large and -huge version of this word list, and there are wbritish* and wcanadian* packages as well.
There are three methods to install wamerican-small
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 wamerican-small Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install wamerican-small
using apt-get
by running the following command:
Install wamerican-small Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install wamerican-small
using apt
by running the following command:
Install wamerican-small 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.
After updating apt database, We can install wamerican-small
using aptitude
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall wamerican-small on Debian 9
To uninstall only the wamerican-small
package we can use the following command:
Uninstall wamerican-small And Its Dependencies
To uninstall wamerican-small
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
Remove wamerican-small Configurations and Data
To remove wamerican-small
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
Remove wamerican-small configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove wamerican-small
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
Dependencies
wamerican-small have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install wamerican-small
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.