How To Install letterize on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install letterize on Ubuntu 22.04. letterize is phone digits to letter-mnemonics

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install letterize on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is letterize

letterize is:

This program tries to help you find a letter mnemonic matching a given phone number.

It generates alphabetic mnemonics for the number, then filters them for phonetic plausibility in English, and displays the filtered list (usually a few hundred suggestions for a 7-digits phone-number).

There are three methods to install letterize 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 letterize Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install letterize

Install letterize Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install letterize

Install letterize 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 letterize using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install letterize

How To Uninstall letterize on Ubuntu 22.04

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

sudo apt-get remove letterize

Uninstall letterize And Its Dependencies

To uninstall letterize and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove letterize

Remove letterize Configurations and Data

To remove letterize configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge letterize

Remove letterize configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge letterize

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install letterize package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.