How To Install apertium on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install apertium on Debian 12.
What is apertium
apertium is:
An open-source shallow-transfer machine translation engine, Apertium is initially aimed at related-language pairs.
It uses finite-state transducers for lexical processing, hidden Markov models for part-of-speech tagging, and finite-state based chunking for structural transfer.
The system is largely based upon systems already developed by the Transducens group at the Universitat d’Alacant, such as interNOSTRUM (Spanish-Catalan, http://www.internostrum.com/welcome.php) and Traductor Universia (Spanish-Portuguese, http://traductor.universia.net).
It will be possible to use Apertium to build machine translation systems for a variety of related-language pairs simply providing the linguistic data needed in the right format.
There are three methods to install apertium on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install apertium Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install apertium using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install apertium
Install apertium Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install apertium using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install apertium
Install apertium 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 apertium using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install apertium
How To Uninstall apertium on Debian 12
To uninstall only the apertium package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove apertium
Uninstall apertium And Its Dependencies
To uninstall apertium and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove apertium
Remove apertium Configurations and Data
To remove apertium configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge apertium
Remove apertium configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove apertium configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge apertium
Dependencies
apertium have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install apertium package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.