aiksaurus software package provides an English-language thesaurus (utility), you can install in your Debian 8 (Jessie) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install aiksaurus
aiksaurus is installed in your system.
Make ensure the aiksaurus package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep aiksaurus *
You will get with aiksaurus package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Debian 8 jessie |
| Section | Text Processing |
| Package | aiksaurus |
| Version | 1.2.1+dev-0.12-6.2 |
| Description | an English-language thesaurus (utility) |
| Sub Section | text |