How To Install liblink-grammar5 on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblink-grammar5 on Debian 9. liblink-grammar5 is Carnegie Mellon Universitys link grammar parser (libraries)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblink-grammar5 on Debian 9.

liblink-grammar5 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 shared library.

There are three methods to install liblink-grammar5 on Debian 9. 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-grammar5 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install liblink-grammar5

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install liblink-grammar5 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install liblink-grammar5

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 liblink-grammar5 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install liblink-grammar5

To uninstall only the liblink-grammar5 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove liblink-grammar5

To uninstall liblink-grammar5 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblink-grammar5

To remove liblink-grammar5 configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge liblink-grammar5

We can use the following command to remove liblink-grammar5 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liblink-grammar5

Dependencies

liblink-grammar5 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblink-grammar5 package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.