How To Install wbritish-small on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install wbritish-small
on Debian 9.
What is wbritish-small
wbritish-small is:
This package provides the file /usr/share/dict/british-english-small 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 smaller list than the one installed by wbritish; 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 wamerican* and wcanadian* packages as well.
There are three methods to install wbritish-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 wbritish-small 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-small
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install wbritish-small
Install wbritish-small Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install wbritish-small
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install wbritish-small
Install wbritish-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.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install wbritish-small
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install wbritish-small
How To Uninstall wbritish-small on Debian 9
To uninstall only the wbritish-small
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove wbritish-small
Uninstall wbritish-small And Its Dependencies
To uninstall wbritish-small
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove wbritish-small
Remove wbritish-small Configurations and Data
To remove wbritish-small
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge wbritish-small
Remove wbritish-small configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove wbritish-small
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge wbritish-small
Dependencies
wbritish-small have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install wbritish-small
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.