How To Install libfrog2 on Debian 11

In this tutorial we learn how to install libfrog2 on Debian 11. libfrog2 is tagger and parser for Dutch language (library)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libfrog2 on Debian 11.

What is libfrog2

libfrog2 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 Centre of Language and Speech Technology at Radboud University Nijmegen, it subsumes previous work by 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 libfrog2 on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libfrog2 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libfrog2 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libfrog2

Install libfrog2 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libfrog2 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libfrog2

Install libfrog2 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 libfrog2 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libfrog2

How To Uninstall libfrog2 on Debian 11

To uninstall only the libfrog2 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libfrog2

Uninstall libfrog2 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libfrog2 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libfrog2

Remove libfrog2 Configurations and Data

To remove libfrog2 configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libfrog2

Remove libfrog2 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libfrog2 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libfrog2

Dependencies

libfrog2 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libfrog2 package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.