How To Install liblink-grammar-dev on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblink-grammar-dev on Ubuntu 18.04. liblink-grammar-dev is Carnegie Mellon Universitys link grammar parser (development headers)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblink-grammar-dev on Ubuntu 18.04.

liblink-grammar-dev is:

In Sleator, D. and Temperley, D. “Parsing English with a Link Grammar” (1991), the authors defined a new formal grammatical system called a “link grammar”. A sequence of words is in the language of a link grammar if there is a way to draw “links” between words in such a way that the local requirements of each word are satisfied, the links do not cross, and the words form a connected graph. The authors encoded English grammar into such a system, and wrote this program to parse English using this grammar.

link-grammar can be used for linguistic parsing for information retrieval or extraction from natural language documents. It can also be used as a grammar checker.

This package contains the header files and static libraries

There are three methods to install liblink-grammar-dev 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.

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install liblink-grammar-dev

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install liblink-grammar-dev using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install liblink-grammar-dev

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 liblink-grammar-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install liblink-grammar-dev

To uninstall only the liblink-grammar-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove liblink-grammar-dev

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblink-grammar-dev

To remove liblink-grammar-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge liblink-grammar-dev

We can use the following command to remove liblink-grammar-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liblink-grammar-dev

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Summary

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