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