How To Install wcanadian-small on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install wcanadian-small
on Ubuntu 22.04.
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 Ubuntu 22.04. 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-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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 22.04
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 Ubuntu 22.04, 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 Ubuntu 22.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install wcanadian-small
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.