How to Install and Uninstall hunspell Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 20,2024

1. Install "hunspell" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install hunspell on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

Please follow the guidelines below to uninstall hunspell on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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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 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: hunspell
Priority: optional
Section: universe/text
Installed-Size: 150
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian LibreOffice Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.3.3-4ubuntu1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libgcc1 (>= 1:3.0), libhunspell-1.3-0 (>= 1.3.3), libncursesw5 (>= 6), libreadline6 (>= 6.0), libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1), libtinfo5 (>= 6), hunspell-en-us | hunspell-dictionary | myspell-dictionary
Suggests: unzip
Filename: pool/universe/h/hunspell/hunspell_1.3.3-4ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Size: 45070
MD5sum: 1f425d23115bdb4ddddc8096e08bdf25
SHA1: d11c8fdd0824e470545c203cfe49d082375de8c4
SHA256: 25affb9b4990129074b91df736bd2e02cacf1fa4fff5c13f0108dbe7ffb9a176
Description-en: spell checker and morphological analyzer (program)
Hunspell is a spell checker and morphological analyzer library and program
designed for languages with rich morphology and complex word compounding or
character encoding. It is based on MySpell and features an Ispell-like
terminal interface using Curses library, an Ispell pipe interface and an
OpenOffice.org UNO module.
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Main features:
- Unicode support (first 65535 Unicode characters)
- morphological analysis (in custom item and arrangement style)
- Max. 65535 affix classes and twofold affix stripping (for agglutinative
languages, like Azeri, Basque, Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Turkish, etc.)
- Support complex compoundings (for example, Hungarian and German)
- Support language specific algorithms (for example, handling Azeri
and Turkish dotted i, or German sharp s)
- Handling conditional affixes, circumfixes, fogemorphemes,
forbidden words, pseudoroots and homonyms.
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This package contains the program with the Ispell-like terminal and pipe
interfaces.
Description-md5: 0cb13f3fed802d47e7c5bf5a7e7a6f5b
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu