How To Install python-pattern on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-pattern on Debian 9.
What is python-pattern
python-pattern is:
Pattern is a web mining module for the Python programming language. It has tools for data mining (Google, Twitter and Wikipedia API, a web crawler, a HTML DOM parser), natural language processing (part-of-speech taggers, n-gram search, sentiment analysis, WordNet), machine learning (vector space model, clustering, SVM), network analysis and
The module is free, well-document and bundled with 50+ examples and 350+ unit tests.
There are three methods to install python-pattern 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-pattern 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-pattern using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-pattern
Install python-pattern Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-pattern using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-pattern
Install python-pattern 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-pattern using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-pattern
How To Uninstall python-pattern on Debian 9
To uninstall only the python-pattern package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-pattern
Uninstall python-pattern And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-pattern and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-pattern
Remove python-pattern Configurations and Data
To remove python-pattern configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-pattern
Remove python-pattern configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-pattern configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-pattern
Dependencies
python-pattern have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-pattern package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
