How To Install aspell-autobuildhash on CentOS 8

One-liner Install Command

If you are only interested in the installation command, here is a quick answer for you:

sudo yum makecache && sudo yum -y install dictionaries-common

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install dictionaries-common

But if you are interested in the details with step-by-step instructions, the following information will be helpful.

What is aspell-autobuildhash and How to Install It?

First things first, you will need access to a server or computer running CentOS 8. This guide was written specifically with a server running CentOS 8 in mind, although it should also work on older, supported versions of the operating system.

Also, make sure you are running a regular, non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your server. When you have an account available, log in as your non-root user to begin.

There are several ways to install aspell-autobuildhash on CentOS 8. You can use (links are clickable):

In the following sections, we will describe each method in detail. You can choose one of them or refer to the recommended one.

Install aspell-autobuildhash on CentOS 8 using dnf

First, update dnf packages database with dnf by running the next command:

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating database, You can install aspell-autobuildhash using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install dictionaries-common

Install aspell-autobuildhash on CentOS 8 using yum

Because aspell-autobuildhash is available in CentOS 8’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the yum packaging system.

To begin, update local packages database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

Now can install aspell-autobuildhash package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install dictionaries-common

How to upgrade (update) a single package aspell-autobuildhash using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

If you want to update a specific package like aspell-autobuildhash in this example you should use the following command:

yum update dictionaries-common

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade dictionaries-common

How to Upgrade aspell-autobuildhash on CentOS 8 with dnf?

When you run the dnf update, all system packages with available updates are updated. However, if you want to upgrade a single package, then you would have to pass the package name as the argument to the dnf update command.

dnf update dictionaries-common

How To remove aspell-autobuildhash from CentOS 8

To uninstall only the aspell-autobuildhash package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove dictionaries-common

Extra info and code examples

This package provides utilities shared between all wordlists and spelling dictionaries for Ispell, Aspell, or MySpell/Hunspell. It also includes support infrastructure for software using them (such as JED and Mutt), and some patched spell-checking Lisp files for better Emacs integration. More information about the availability of these dictionaries and their naming conventions is available in the README.Debian file.

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install aspell-autobuildhash using dnf and yum package managers. Also, we showed how to update manually as a single package and different ways to uninstall the aspell-autobuildhash from CentOS 8.

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