How To Install irstlm on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install irstlm on Debian 9. irstlm is IRST Language Modeling Toolkit

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install irstlm on Debian 9.

What is irstlm

irstlm is:

The IRST Language Modeling Toolkit can be used to learn a language model from data. The generated n-gram models should be usable on any system supporting ARPA language model format.

This package provides the command line tools.

There are three methods to install irstlm on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install irstlm Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install irstlm using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install irstlm

Install irstlm Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install irstlm using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install irstlm

Install irstlm Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install irstlm using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install irstlm

How To Uninstall irstlm on Debian 9

To uninstall only the irstlm package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove irstlm

Uninstall irstlm And Its Dependencies

To uninstall irstlm and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove irstlm

Remove irstlm Configurations and Data

To remove irstlm configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge irstlm

Remove irstlm configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove irstlm configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge irstlm

Dependencies

irstlm have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install irstlm package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.