How To Install libirstlm-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libirstlm-dev on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libirstlm-dev
libirstlm-dev is:
The IRST Language Modeling Toolkit can be used to learn a language model from data. The generated n-gram models should be usable on any system supporting ARPA language model format.
This package provides development headers for IRSTLM.
There are three methods to install libirstlm-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 libirstlm-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 libirstlm-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libirstlm-dev
Install libirstlm-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libirstlm-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libirstlm-dev
Install libirstlm-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 libirstlm-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libirstlm-dev
How To Uninstall libirstlm-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libirstlm-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libirstlm-dev
Uninstall libirstlm-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libirstlm-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libirstlm-dev
Remove libirstlm-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libirstlm-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libirstlm-dev
Remove libirstlm-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libirstlm-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libirstlm-dev
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libirstlm-dev package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.