How To Install whitakers-words on Debian 12

Learn how to install whitakers-words on Debian 12 with this tutorial. whitakers-words is Latin word parser and translation aid

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install whitakers-words on Debian 12.

What is whitakers-words

whitakers-words is:

Whitakers Words is a program that takes in words in Latin, and analyzes them to determine the stems, case, form, and any possible translations. It can also provide Latin words with a given translation, going from Latin to English. It is an invaluable tool for Latin users, be they experts or new learners.

Words was created by Willam Whitaker (1936-2010) as a curiosity that demonstrated his new programming language, Ada. It was since improved and iterated on, ported away from it’s DOS roots, and given an online access point.

This package contains the executable parser program.

There are three methods to install whitakers-words 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 whitakers-words Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install whitakers-words using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install whitakers-words

Install whitakers-words Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install whitakers-words using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install whitakers-words

Install whitakers-words 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 whitakers-words using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install whitakers-words

How To Uninstall whitakers-words on Debian 12

To uninstall only the whitakers-words package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove whitakers-words

Uninstall whitakers-words And Its Dependencies

To uninstall whitakers-words and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove whitakers-words

Remove whitakers-words Configurations and Data

To remove whitakers-words configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge whitakers-words

Remove whitakers-words configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove whitakers-words configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge whitakers-words

Dependencies

whitakers-words have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install whitakers-words package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.