How To Install libexttextcat-dev on Debian 12

Learn how to install libexttextcat-dev on Debian 12 with this tutorial. libexttextcat-dev is Language detection library - development files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libexttextcat-dev on Debian 12.

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 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 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 12

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 12, 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 12 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 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.