How To Install libfrog1 on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install libfrog1 on Ubuntu 18.04. libfrog1 is tagger and parser for Dutch language (library)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libfrog1 on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is libfrog1

libfrog1 is:

Memory-Based Learning (MBL) is a machine-learning method applicable to a wide range of tasks in Natural Language Processing (NLP).

Frog is a modular system integrating a morphosyntactic tagger, lemmatizer, morphological analyzer, and dependency parser for natural languages. Using Memory-Based Learning techniques, Frog analyses word tokens in incoming UTF-8 text files, and assigns a dependency graph to each sentence.

Frog is a product of the ILK Research Group (Tilburg University, The Netherlands) and the CLiPS Research Centre (University of Antwerp, Belgium).

This package provides the runtime files required to run programs that use Frog.

There are three methods to install libfrog1 on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libfrog1 Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libfrog1 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libfrog1

Install libfrog1 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libfrog1 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libfrog1

Install libfrog1 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 libfrog1 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libfrog1

How To Uninstall libfrog1 on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the libfrog1 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libfrog1

Uninstall libfrog1 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libfrog1 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libfrog1

Remove libfrog1 Configurations and Data

To remove libfrog1 configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libfrog1

Remove libfrog1 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libfrog1 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libfrog1

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libfrog1 package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.