How To Install python-langdetect on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-langdetect on Ubuntu 18.04.
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 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 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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 18.04
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 Ubuntu 18.04, 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 Ubuntu 18.04 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
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-langdetect package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
