How to Install and Uninstall ispell Package on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

Last updated: April 28,2024

1. Install "ispell" package

This tutorial shows how to install ispell on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

$ sudo apt update $ sudo apt install ispell

2. Uninstall "ispell" package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall ispell on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver):

$ sudo apt remove ispell $ sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove

3. Information about the ispell package on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

Package: ispell
Architecture: amd64
Version: 3.4.00-6
Multi-Arch: foreign
Priority: optional
Section: universe/text
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Robert Luberda
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 368
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libtinfo5 (>= 6)
Recommends: iamerican | ispell-dictionary, wamerican | wordlist
Suggests: spell
Breaks: iamerican (<= 3.1.20.0-9), ibritish (<= 3.1.20.0-9), ibulgarian (<= 3.0-12), iczech (<= 20040229-5), idanish (<= 1.6.25-1), iestonian (<= 1:20030606-12.1), ifinnish (<= 0.7-17.3), ifinnish-large (<= 0.7-17.3), ifrench (<= 1.4-25), ifrench-gut (<= 1:1.0-27), igaelic (<= 0.50-7), ihungarian (<= 0.99.4-2), iirish (<= 2.0-20), iitalian (<= 1:2.3-2), imanx (<= 0.50-8), inorwegian (<= 2.0.10-3.2), iogerman (<= 1:2-26), ipolish (<= 20100612-1), irussian (<= 0.99g5-8.1), iswedish (<= 1.4.5-2), iukrainian (<= 1.6.0-1)
Filename: pool/universe/i/ispell/ispell_3.4.00-6_amd64.deb
Size: 131566
MD5sum: 4fa69dab6a6f631c099a466b7ad187d2
SHA1: a328f4d7fc2bceb8fa220afd47b5452be11120ab
SHA256: 80a22b4e93b49fcef7a36b07d233323182b49446be010573f0f0865033f60699
Homepage: http://www.lasr.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/ispell.html
Description: International Ispell (an interactive spelling corrector)
Description-md5: 577e95b1fdc6375f1bcda985b53bef21