How To Install lttoolbox-dev on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install lttoolbox-dev on Ubuntu 18.04. lttoolbox-dev is Development tools and library for lttoolbox

Introduction

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

What is lttoolbox-dev

lttoolbox-dev is:

The lttoolbox contains the augmented letter transducer tools for natural language processing used by Apertium, a platform for building rule-based and hybrid machine translation systems. The software is also useful for making morphological analysers and generators for natural language processing applications.

This package provides development files for lttoolbox.

There are three methods to install lttoolbox-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 lttoolbox-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 lttoolbox-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install lttoolbox-dev

Install lttoolbox-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install lttoolbox-dev

Install lttoolbox-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 lttoolbox-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install lttoolbox-dev

How To Uninstall lttoolbox-dev on Ubuntu 18.04

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

sudo apt-get remove lttoolbox-dev

Uninstall lttoolbox-dev And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove lttoolbox-dev

Remove lttoolbox-dev Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge lttoolbox-dev

Remove lttoolbox-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lttoolbox-dev

References

Summary

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