How To Install wamerican on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install wamerican
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is wamerican
wamerican is:
This package provides the file /usr/share/dict/american-english containing a list of English words with American spellings. This list can be used by spelling checkers, and by programs such as look(1).
There are also -small, -large, and -huge versions of this word list, and there are wbritish* and wcanadian* packages as well. Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-live, kubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-live, xubuntu-live, lubuntu-live, ubuntustudio-dvd-live, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntukylin-live, ubuntu-mate-desktop, ubuntu-mate-live, ubuntu-budgie-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-live
There are three methods to install wamerican
on Ubuntu 20.04. 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 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
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install wamerican
Install wamerican Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install wamerican
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install wamerican
Install wamerican 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
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install wamerican
How To Uninstall wamerican on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the wamerican
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove wamerican
Uninstall wamerican And Its Dependencies
To uninstall wamerican
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove wamerican
Remove wamerican Configurations and Data
To remove wamerican
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge wamerican
Remove wamerican configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove wamerican
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge wamerican
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install wamerican
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.