hunspell-ml software package provides Malayalam dictionary for hunspell, you can install in your Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install hunspell-ml
hunspell-ml is installed in your system.
Make ensure the hunspell-ml package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep hunspell-ml *
You will get with hunspell-ml package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | Text Processing |
| Package | hunspell-ml |
| Version | 0.1-2 |
| Description | Malayalam dictionary for hunspell |
| Sub Section | Text |