How To Install wswiss on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install wswiss
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is wswiss
wswiss is:
This is a wordlist with the new German orthography (de-CH-1996), which is used since 1998-08-01 and which is obligatory as of 2005-08-01.
It is based on the famous hkgerman dictionary (using the old German orthography, which is available as wogerman), with many corrections and additions.
Most notably this variant supports swiss spelling. This includes some Swiss words, as well as ss instead of German sz ligature.
There are three methods to install wswiss
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 wswiss Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install wswiss
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install wswiss
Install wswiss Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install wswiss
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install wswiss
Install wswiss 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 wswiss
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install wswiss
How To Uninstall wswiss on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the wswiss
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove wswiss
Uninstall wswiss And Its Dependencies
To uninstall wswiss
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove wswiss
Remove wswiss Configurations and Data
To remove wswiss
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge wswiss
Remove wswiss configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove wswiss
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge wswiss
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install wswiss
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.