How To Install wcanadian-insane on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install wcanadian-insane on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is wcanadian-insane
wcanadian-insane is:
This package provides the file /usr/share/dict/canadian-english-insane containing a list of English words with Canadian spellings. This list can be used by spelling checkers, and by programs such as look(1).
This is an even larger list than the one installed by wcanadian-huge, and possibly contains invalid words (as well as words that are very uncommon). Nothing prevents you installing both (and others) at the same time.
There are also -small and standard versions of this word list, and there are wbritish* and wamerican* packages as well.
There are three methods to install wcanadian-insane 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 wcanadian-insane Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install wcanadian-insane using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install wcanadian-insane
Install wcanadian-insane Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install wcanadian-insane using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install wcanadian-insane
Install wcanadian-insane 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 wcanadian-insane using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install wcanadian-insane
How To Uninstall wcanadian-insane on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the wcanadian-insane package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove wcanadian-insane
Uninstall wcanadian-insane And Its Dependencies
To uninstall wcanadian-insane and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove wcanadian-insane
Remove wcanadian-insane Configurations and Data
To remove wcanadian-insane configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge wcanadian-insane
Remove wcanadian-insane configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove wcanadian-insane configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge wcanadian-insane
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install wcanadian-insane package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
