How To Install python-nltk on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-nltk on Debian 9.
What is python-nltk
python-nltk is:
The Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) is a leading platform for building Python programs to work with human language data. It provides easy-to-use interfaces to over 50 corpora and lexical resources such as WordNet, along with a suite of text processing libraries for classification, tokenization, stemming, tagging, parsing, and semantic reasoning.
This package contains the modules for Python2.
There are three methods to install python-nltk 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 python-nltk 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-nltk using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-nltk
Install python-nltk Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-nltk using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-nltk
Install python-nltk 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-nltk using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-nltk
How To Uninstall python-nltk on Debian 9
To uninstall only the python-nltk package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-nltk
Uninstall python-nltk And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-nltk and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-nltk
Remove python-nltk Configurations and Data
To remove python-nltk configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-nltk
Remove python-nltk configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-nltk configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-nltk
Dependencies
python-nltk have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-nltk package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
