How To Install python-liblinear on Debian 10

Learn how to install python-liblinear on Debian 10 with this tutorial. python-liblinear is Python bindings for LIBLINEAR

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-liblinear on Debian 10.

What is python-liblinear

python-liblinear is:

LIBLINEAR is a library for learning linear classifiers for large scale applications. It supports Support Vector Machines (SVM) with L2 and L1 loss, logistic regression, multi class classification and also Linear Programming Machines (L1-regularized SVMs). Its computational complexity scales linearly with the number of training examples making it one of the fastest SVM solvers around. It also provides Python bindings.

This package contains the Python bindings.

There are three methods to install python-liblinear 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.

Install python-liblinear Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install python-liblinear

Install python-liblinear Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install python-liblinear

Install python-liblinear 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 python-liblinear using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install python-liblinear

How To Uninstall python-liblinear on Debian 10

To uninstall only the python-liblinear package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove python-liblinear

Uninstall python-liblinear And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-liblinear

Remove python-liblinear Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge python-liblinear

Remove python-liblinear configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-liblinear

Dependencies

python-liblinear have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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