How To Install libtercpp-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libtercpp-dev on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libtercpp-dev
libtercpp-dev is:
TERCpp is a tool (implemented in C++) for scoring machine translation performance. It uses the Translation Error Rate (TER) metric to measure edit distances between translations and references.
This package contains development files for TERCpp.
There are three methods to install libtercpp-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.
Install libtercpp-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 libtercpp-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libtercpp-dev
Install libtercpp-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libtercpp-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libtercpp-dev
Install libtercpp-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 libtercpp-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libtercpp-dev
How To Uninstall libtercpp-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libtercpp-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libtercpp-dev
Uninstall libtercpp-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libtercpp-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libtercpp-dev
Remove libtercpp-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libtercpp-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libtercpp-dev
Remove libtercpp-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libtercpp-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libtercpp-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libtercpp-dev package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
