How To Install link-grammar on Debian 10

Learn how to install link-grammar on Debian 10 with this tutorial. link-grammar is Carnegie Mellon Universitys link grammar parser

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install link-grammar on Debian 10.

link-grammar is:

In Sleator, D. and Temperley, D. “Parsing English with a Link Grammar” (1991), the authors defined a new formal grammatical system called a “link grammar”. A sequence of words is in the language of a link grammar if there is a way to draw “links” between words in such a way that the local requirements of each word are satisfied, the links do not cross, and the words form a connected graph. The authors encoded English grammar into such a system, and wrote this program to parse English using this grammar.

link-grammar can be used for linguistic parsing for information retrieval or extraction from natural language documents. It can also be used as a grammar checker.

This package contains the user-executable binary.

There are three methods to install link-grammar on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install link-grammar

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install link-grammar

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 link-grammar using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install link-grammar

To uninstall only the link-grammar package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove link-grammar

To uninstall link-grammar and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove link-grammar

To remove link-grammar configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge link-grammar

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge link-grammar

Dependencies

link-grammar have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install link-grammar package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.