Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install aspell on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is aspell
aspell is:
GNU Aspell is a spell-checker which can be used either as a standalone
application or embedded in other programs. Its main feature is that it
does a much better job of suggesting possible spellings than just about
any other spell-checker available for the English language, including
Ispell and Microsoft Word. It also has many other technical
enhancements over Ispell such as using shared memory for dictionaries
and intelligently handling personal dictionaries when more than one
Aspell process is open at once.
Aspell is designed to be a drop-in replacement for Ispell.
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Package: aspell
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.60.8-1build1
Multi-Arch: foreign
Priority: optional
Section: text
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected]
Original-Maintainer: Agustin Martin Domingo [email protected]
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 380
Provides: aspell-bin
Depends: libaspell15 (= 0.60.8-1build1), libc6 (>= 2.14), libncursesw6 (>= 6), libstdc++6 (>= 5), libtinfo6 (>= 6), dictionaries-common (» 0.40)
Recommends: aspell-en | aspell-dictionary | aspell6a-dictionary
Suggests: aspell-doc, spellutils
Breaks: aspell-bin (« 0.60.3-2)
Replaces: aspell-bin (« 0.60.3-2), aspell-hi (<= 0.01-1), aspell-mr (<= 0.10-1)
Filename: pool/main/a/aspell/aspell_0.60.8-1build1_amd64.deb
Size: 88328
MD5sum: 9063dedda212c5796c3af18ae4f74af7
SHA1: 3042fcda803553ccf485c0a2af0cb188e3f94fa0
SHA256: 8af3910fd31ad3d9768717957cd16c2b15df8ae07fe9723baffe0e2d5c3e53d1
Homepage: http://aspell.net/
Description-en: GNU Aspell spell-checker
GNU Aspell is a spell-checker which can be used either as a standalone
application or embedded in other programs. Its main feature is that it
does a much better job of suggesting possible spellings than just about
any other spell-checker available for the English language, including
Ispell and Microsoft Word. It also has many other technical
enhancements over Ispell such as using shared memory for dictionaries
and intelligently handling personal dictionaries when more than one
Aspell process is open at once.
Aspell is designed to be a drop-in replacement for Ispell.
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There are three methods to install aspell on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install aspell Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install aspell using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install aspell
Install aspell Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install aspell using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install aspell
Install aspell 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 aspell using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install aspell
How To Uninstall aspell on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the aspell package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove aspell
Uninstall aspell And Its Dependencies
To uninstall aspell and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove aspell
Remove aspell Configurations and Data
To remove aspell configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge aspell
Remove aspell configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove aspell configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge aspell
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install aspell package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
