How to Install and Uninstall hunspell Package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Last updated: February 24,2025

1. Install "hunspell" package

This tutorial shows how to install hunspell on Debian 10 (Buster)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                hunspell
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "hunspell" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall hunspell on Debian 10 (Buster):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                hunspell
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the hunspell package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Package: hunspell
Version: 1.7.0-2
Installed-Size: 208
Maintainer: Debian LibreOffice Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libgcc1 (>= 1:3.0), libhunspell-1.7-0, libncursesw6 (>= 6), libreadline7 (>= 6.0), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2), libtinfo6 (>= 6), hunspell-en-us | hunspell-dictionary | myspell-dictionary
Suggests: unzip
Description: spell checker and morphological analyzer (program)
Description-md5: 0cb13f3fed802d47e7c5bf5a7e7a6f5b
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://hunspell.github.io/
Tag: culture::hungarian, role::program, uitoolkit::ncurses, use::checking
Section: text
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/h/hunspell/hunspell_1.7.0-2_amd64.deb
Size: 97932
MD5sum: 80c50550adf1beb79b8d7c3295bd33e4
SHA256: e4c7e75cf1de8b1fe2a81a814fa4258c3e2b8f0b4d0ad7a67abfb3a714dc3663