How To Install libvw-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libvw-dev
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libvw-dev
libvw-dev is:
Vowpal Wabbit is a fast online machine learning algorithm. The core algorithm is specialist gradient descent (GD) on a loss function (several are available). VW features:
- flexible input data specification
- speedy learning
- scalability (bounded memory footprint, suitable for distributed computation)
- feature pairing
This package contains development files needed to compile and link programs which use vowpal-wabbit’s libraries.
There are three methods to install libvw-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 libvw-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 libvw-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libvw-dev
Install libvw-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libvw-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libvw-dev
Install libvw-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 libvw-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libvw-dev
How To Uninstall libvw-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libvw-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libvw-dev
Uninstall libvw-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libvw-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libvw-dev
Remove libvw-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libvw-dev
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libvw-dev
Remove libvw-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libvw-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libvw-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libvw-dev
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.