How To Install aspell-import 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 aspell

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install aspell

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

What is aspell-import 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-import 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-import 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-import using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install aspell

Install aspell-import on CentOS 8 using yum

Because aspell-import 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-import package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install aspell

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

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

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

yum update aspell

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade aspell

How to Upgrade aspell-import 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 aspell

How To remove aspell-import from CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove aspell

Extra info and code examples

GNU Aspell is a spell-checker which can be used either as a standalone application or embedded in other programs. Its main feature is that it does a much better job of suggesting possible spellings than just about any other spell-checker available for the English language, including Ispell and Microsoft Word. It also has many other technical enhancements over Ispell such as using shared memory for dictionaries and intelligently handling personal dictionaries when more than one Aspell process is open at once. Aspell is designed to be a drop-in replacement for Ispell.

Conclusion

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

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