How To Install wcanadian-small on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install wcanadian-small on Debian 12.
What is wcanadian-small
wcanadian-small is:
This package provides the file /usr/share/dict/canadian-english-small 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 a smaller list than the one installed by wcanadian; nothing prevents you installing both (and others) at the same time.
There are also -large and -huge versions of this word list, and there are wbritish* and wamerican* packages as well.
There are three methods to install wcanadian-small on Debian 12. 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-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 wcanadian-small using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install wcanadian-small
Install wcanadian-small Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install wcanadian-small using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install wcanadian-small
Install wcanadian-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 wcanadian-small using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install wcanadian-small
How To Uninstall wcanadian-small on Debian 12
To uninstall only the wcanadian-small package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove wcanadian-small
Uninstall wcanadian-small And Its Dependencies
To uninstall wcanadian-small and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove wcanadian-small
Remove wcanadian-small Configurations and Data
To remove wcanadian-small configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge wcanadian-small
Remove wcanadian-small configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove wcanadian-small configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge wcanadian-small
Dependencies
wcanadian-small have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install wcanadian-small package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
