How to Install and Uninstall wamerican-huge Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 16,2024

1. Install "wamerican-huge" package

This is a short guide on how to install wamerican-huge on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

This is a short guide on how to uninstall wamerican-huge on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


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

Package: wamerican-huge
Priority: optional
Section: universe/text
Installed-Size: 3484
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Don Armstrong
Architecture: all
Source: scowl
Version: 7.1-1
Provides: wordlist
Depends: dictionaries-common (>= 0.20), debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0
Filename: pool/universe/s/scowl/wamerican-huge_7.1-1_all.deb
Size: 912516
MD5sum: cacbfb850fef14cb8dbb2bfb234095e1
SHA1: e2a6e0aaf180f851abbb05335f0836162509c87b
SHA256: 6cc8d468567114152da015a0fd7b4d048ab01e86aa5a59078c95ea9cdb55dce0
Description-en: American English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict
This package provides the file /usr/share/dict/american-english-huge
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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This is an even larger list than the one installed by wamerican-large;
nothing prevents you installing both (and others) at the same time.
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There are also -small and standard versions of this word list,
and there are wbritish* and wcanadian* packages as well.
Description-md5: 7b9e8c1686b63ee9ccfc218dd6bd1eb9
Homepage: http://wordlist.sourceforge.net/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu