How To Install python-langdetect on Debian 10

Learn how to install python-langdetect on Debian 10 with this tutorial. python-langdetect is Python library for language-detection (Python 2)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-langdetect on Debian 10.

What is python-langdetect

python-langdetect is:

Python port of langdetect, a language-detection library.

This library provides tools for

  • generating language profiles from Wikipedia abstract xml
  • detect the language of a text using naive Bayesian filter (99% over precision for 53 languages).

This package installs the library for Python 2.

There are three methods to install python-langdetect 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 python-langdetect Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install python-langdetect

Install python-langdetect Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install python-langdetect

Install python-langdetect 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 python-langdetect using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install python-langdetect

How To Uninstall python-langdetect on Debian 10

To uninstall only the python-langdetect package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove python-langdetect

Uninstall python-langdetect And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-langdetect

Remove python-langdetect Configurations and Data

To remove python-langdetect configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge python-langdetect

Remove python-langdetect configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-langdetect

Dependencies

python-langdetect have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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