How to Install and Uninstall wamerican Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: May 15,2024

1. Install "wamerican" package

This is a short guide on how to install wamerican on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


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

Learn how to uninstall wamerican on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                wamerican
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the wamerican package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: wamerican
Architecture: all
Version: 2019.10.06-1
Multi-Arch: foreign
Priority: optional
Section: text
Source: scowl
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Don Armstrong
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 996
Provides: wordlist
Depends: debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0
Filename: pool/main/s/scowl/wamerican_2019.10.06-1_all.deb
Size: 210696
MD5sum: fa7703114e7c8f809e686e332003060a
SHA1: c8c54d6b6401a450e0b30f398abe3adc36a05e92
SHA256: 1b50253e754f6d5e971a94056a2b82bd7fef1fedb64cf634b87cf80a3494d8e0
SHA512: b330e8d4ceec5608afffa00e5a8d9f8a210450a8578613729574daaa440ec8df2883ea4f1ba98065147e033fad0c3eec65e9cbd7985c939158b2614c7b9c830a
Homepage: http://wordlist.sourceforge.net/
Description-en: American English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict
This package provides the file /usr/share/dict/american-english
containing a list of English words with American spellings.
This list can be used by spelling checkers, and by programs such
as look(1).
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There are also -small, -large, and -huge versions of this word list,
and there are wbritish* and wcanadian* packages as well.
Description-md5: ea52704df710a9095c3201e3426ac6ff
Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-live, ubuntu-desktop-raspi, kubuntu-live, xubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-live, lubuntu-live, ubuntustudio-dvd-live, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntukylin-live, ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop, ubuntu-mate-live, ubuntu-budgie-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-live, ubuntu-budgie-desktop-raspi