How To Install lttoolbox on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install lttoolbox on Kali Linux.

What is lttoolbox

lttoolbox 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.

There are three methods to install lttoolbox on Kali Linux. 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 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 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install lttoolbox

Install lttoolbox Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install lttoolbox

Install lttoolbox Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install lttoolbox

How To Uninstall lttoolbox on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove lttoolbox

Uninstall lttoolbox And Its Dependencies

To uninstall lttoolbox and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove lttoolbox

Remove lttoolbox Configurations and Data

To remove lttoolbox configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge lttoolbox

Remove lttoolbox configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lttoolbox

Dependencies

lttoolbox have the following dependencies:

• liblttoolbox3-3.5-1
• libc6
• libgcc-s1
• libstdc++6

References

• lttoolbox website

Summary

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