How To Install wordplay on Debian 10

Learn how to install wordplay on Debian 10 with this tutorial. wordplay is anagram generator

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install wordplay on Debian 10.

What is wordplay

wordplay is:

Wordplay generates anagrams of words. For example, “Debian” = “Bendai” (with an Italian Dictionary) or “Debani” (with an Catalan Dictionary).

Does not support UTF-8, empty spaces, accents and non-Latin characters.

There are three methods to install wordplay on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install wordplay Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install wordplay

Install wordplay Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install wordplay using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install wordplay

Install wordplay 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 wordplay using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install wordplay

How To Uninstall wordplay on Debian 10

To uninstall only the wordplay package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove wordplay

Uninstall wordplay And Its Dependencies

To uninstall wordplay and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove wordplay

Remove wordplay Configurations and Data

To remove wordplay configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge wordplay

Remove wordplay configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge wordplay

Dependencies

wordplay have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install wordplay package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.