How To Install ydpdict on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ydpdict
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is ydpdict
ydpdict is:
This is an ncurses interface to the Collins English-Polish/Polish-English and/or Langenscheidt German-Polish/Polish-German dictionaries distributed by Young Digital Planet. It can also play the pronunciation samples if the CD is available.
This package is only the interface, it does not contain the dictionary files itself. To use it, you need a copy of a dictionary from YDP.
There are three methods to install ydpdict
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 ydpdict Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install ydpdict
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ydpdict
Install ydpdict Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ydpdict
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ydpdict
Install ydpdict 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 ydpdict
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ydpdict
How To Uninstall ydpdict on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the ydpdict
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ydpdict
Uninstall ydpdict And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ydpdict
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ydpdict
Remove ydpdict Configurations and Data
To remove ydpdict
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ydpdict
Remove ydpdict configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ydpdict
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ydpdict
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ydpdict
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.