How To Install libucto3 on Debian 10

Learn how to install libucto3 on Debian 10 with this tutorial. libucto3 is Unicode Tokenizer - runtime

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libucto3 on Debian 10.

What is libucto3

libucto3 is:

Ucto can tokenize UTF-8 encoded text files (i.e. separate words from punctuation, split sentences, generate n-grams), and offers several other basic preprocessing steps that make your text suited for further processing such as indexing, part-of-speech tagging, or machine translation.

This package provides the programming library only.

Ucto was written by Maarten van Gompel and Ko van der Sloot. Work on Ucto was funded by NWO, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, under the Implicit Linguistics project, the CLARIN-NL program, and the CLARIAH project.

Ucto is a product of the Centre of Language and Speech Technology (Radboud University Nijmegen), and previously the ILK Research Group (Tilburg University, The Netherlands).

If you are interested in machine parsing of UTF-8 encoded text files, e.g. to do scientific research in natural language processing, ucto will likely be of use to you.

There are three methods to install libucto3 on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libucto3 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libucto3 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libucto3

Install libucto3 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libucto3 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libucto3

Install libucto3 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 libucto3 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libucto3

How To Uninstall libucto3 on Debian 10

To uninstall only the libucto3 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libucto3

Uninstall libucto3 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libucto3 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libucto3

Remove libucto3 Configurations and Data

To remove libucto3 configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libucto3

Remove libucto3 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libucto3 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libucto3

Dependencies

libucto3 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libucto3 package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.