How To Install wamerican-small on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install wamerican-small on Kali Linux.
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 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-small Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install wamerican-small using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install wamerican-smallInstall wamerican-small Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install wamerican-small using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install wamerican-smallInstall wamerican-small 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install wamerican-small using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install wamerican-smallHow To Uninstall wamerican-small on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the wamerican-small package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove wamerican-smallUninstall wamerican-small And Its Dependencies
To uninstall wamerican-small and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove wamerican-smallRemove wamerican-small Configurations and Data
To remove wamerican-small configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge wamerican-smallRemove 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:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge wamerican-smallDependencies
wamerican-small have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install wamerican-small package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
