How To Install libsentencepiece-dev on Debian 11

In this tutorial we learn how to install libsentencepiece-dev on Debian 11. libsentencepiece-dev is Header files of SentencePiece

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libsentencepiece-dev on Debian 11.

What is libsentencepiece-dev

libsentencepiece-dev is:

SentencePiece is an unsupervised text tokenizer/detokenizer mainly designed for Neural Network-based text generation systems where the vocabulary size is predetermined prior to the neural model training.

There are three methods to install libsentencepiece-dev on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libsentencepiece-dev Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install libsentencepiece-dev

Install libsentencepiece-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libsentencepiece-dev

Install libsentencepiece-dev 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 libsentencepiece-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libsentencepiece-dev

How To Uninstall libsentencepiece-dev on Debian 11

To uninstall only the libsentencepiece-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libsentencepiece-dev

Uninstall libsentencepiece-dev And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libsentencepiece-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libsentencepiece-dev

Remove libsentencepiece-dev Configurations and Data

To remove libsentencepiece-dev configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libsentencepiece-dev

Remove libsentencepiece-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libsentencepiece-dev

Dependencies

libsentencepiece-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libsentencepiece-dev package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.