How To Install libexttextcat-dev on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libexttextcat-dev on Debian 10.
What is libexttextcat-dev
libexttextcat-dev is:
Libexttextcat is a library with functions that implement the classification technique described in Cavnar & Trenkle, “N-Gram-Based Text Categorization”. It was primarily developed for language guessing, a task on which it is known to perform with near-perfect accuracy.
This package provides the files needed for building packages which use libexttextcat.
There are three methods to install libexttextcat-dev on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libexttextcat-dev Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libexttextcat-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libexttextcat-dev
Install libexttextcat-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libexttextcat-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libexttextcat-dev
Install libexttextcat-dev 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 libexttextcat-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libexttextcat-dev
How To Uninstall libexttextcat-dev on Debian 10
To uninstall only the libexttextcat-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libexttextcat-dev
Uninstall libexttextcat-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libexttextcat-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libexttextcat-dev
Remove libexttextcat-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libexttextcat-dev configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libexttextcat-dev
Remove libexttextcat-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libexttextcat-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libexttextcat-dev
Dependencies
libexttextcat-dev have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libexttextcat-dev package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.