How To Install python3-sentencepiece on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-sentencepiece on Kali Linux. python3-sentencepiece is SentencePiece binding for Python3

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-sentencepiece on Kali Linux.

What is python3-sentencepiece

python3-sentencepiece is:

SentencePiece is an unsupervised text tokenizer/detokenizer mainly designed for Neural Network-based text generation systems where the vocabulary size is predetermined prior to the neural model training.

python3-sentencepiece is its binding for Python3.

There are three methods to install python3-sentencepiece 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 python3-sentencepiece Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install python3-sentencepiece using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install python3-sentencepiece

Install python3-sentencepiece Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install python3-sentencepiece using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install python3-sentencepiece

Install python3-sentencepiece 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 python3-sentencepiece using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install python3-sentencepiece

How To Uninstall python3-sentencepiece on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the python3-sentencepiece package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove python3-sentencepiece

Uninstall python3-sentencepiece And Its Dependencies

To uninstall python3-sentencepiece and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-sentencepiece

Remove python3-sentencepiece Configurations and Data

To remove python3-sentencepiece configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge python3-sentencepiece

Remove python3-sentencepiece configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove python3-sentencepiece configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-sentencepiece

Dependencies

python3-sentencepiece have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-sentencepiece package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.