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

Last updated: December 18,2024

1. Install "ispell" package

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


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

Learn how to uninstall ispell on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                ispell
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the ispell package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: ispell
Priority: optional
Section: universe/text
Installed-Size: 364
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Robert Luberda
Architecture: amd64
Version: 3.4.00-5
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_3.4.00-5_amd64.deb
Size: 133686
MD5sum: 405e122e8839ed44c8e702be9794e2c5
SHA1: 44e0bb9b7effe6362e939ca0b8938b320782d5ea
SHA256: 39186543827e9d003ae61e083e408cdd71641198562c3fe618b1cac57046c606
Description-en: International Ispell (an interactive spelling corrector)
Ispell corrects spelling in plain text, LaTeX, sgml/html/xml, and nroff files.
[x]Emacs and jed have nice interfaces to ispell, and ispell works from many
other tools and from the command line as well.
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No ispell dictionaries are included in this package; you must install
at least one of them ("iamerican" is recommended by default for no good
reason); install the "ispell-dictionary" package(s) for the language(s)
you and your users will want to spell-check.
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It's a good idea to install "word list" package(s) for the same language(s),
because they'll be used by ispell's (L)ookup command.
Description-md5: 577e95b1fdc6375f1bcda985b53bef21
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://www.lasr.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/ispell.html
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu