How To Install cg3 on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cg3 on Debian 9.
What is cg3
cg3 is:
Constraint Grammar compiler and applicator for the 3rd edition of CG that is developed and maintained by VISL SDU and GrammarSoft ApS.
CG-3 can be used for disambiguation of morphology, syntax, semantics, etc; dependency markup, target language lemma choice for MT, QA systems, and much more. The core idea is that you choose what to do based on the whole available context, as opposed to n-grams.
See http://visl.sdu.dk/cg3.html for more documentation
There are three methods to install cg3 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 cg3 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install cg3 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install cg3
Install cg3 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install cg3 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install cg3
Install cg3 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 cg3 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install cg3
How To Uninstall cg3 on Debian 9
To uninstall only the cg3 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove cg3
Uninstall cg3 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall cg3 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove cg3
Remove cg3 Configurations and Data
To remove cg3 configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge cg3
Remove cg3 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove cg3 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cg3
Dependencies
cg3 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cg3 package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.