How To Install wbritish-large on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install wbritish-large
on Ubuntu 20.04.
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 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 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 20.04
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 20.04, 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 20.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install wbritish-large
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.