How To Install apertium on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install apertium on Kali Linux. apertium is Shallow-transfer machine translation engine

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install apertium on Kali Linux.

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 Kali Linux. 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 on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. 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 Kali Linux

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 Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove apertium

Remove apertium Configurations and Data

To remove apertium configuration and data from Kali Linux 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 Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.