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

Last updated: May 17,2024

1. Install "wamerican-small" package

Please follow the guidance below to install wamerican-small on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall wamerican-small on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


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

Package: wamerican-small
Priority: optional
Section: universe/text
Installed-Size: 530
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-small_7.1-1_all.deb
Size: 142280
MD5sum: 47b1dd6a1e36d8c5cfcc6c91a5154ac0
SHA1: 07f116dc2135ba580511b058e182b6028ed08f21
SHA256: f0b31e46a662f34c7b4ef0f1dc75486d1d91fcecc4e1341c21b9428c3ea8d742
Description-en: American English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict
This package provides the file /usr/share/dict/american-english-small
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 a smaller list than the one installed by wamerican; nothing
prevents you installing both (and others) at the same time.
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There are also -large and -huge version of this word list,
and there are wbritish* and wcanadian* packages as well.
Description-md5: 1c81151a87971c46e958626cff3c1389
Homepage: http://wordlist.sourceforge.net/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu