How To Install libexttextcat-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libexttextcat-dev
on Ubuntu 20.04.
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 Ubuntu 20.04. 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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 20.04
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 Ubuntu 20.04, 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 Ubuntu 20.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libexttextcat-dev
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.