How To Install timblserver on Debian 10

Learn how to install timblserver on Debian 10 with this tutorial. timblserver is Server extensions for Timbl

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install timblserver on Debian 10.

What is timblserver

timblserver is:

timblserver is a TiMBL wrapper; it adds server functionality to TiMBL. It allows TiMBL to run multiple experiments as a TCP server, optionally via HTTP.

The Tilburg Memory Based Learner, TiMBL, is a tool for Natural Language Processing research, and for many other domains where classification tasks are learned from examples.

TimblServer is a product of the ILK Research Group (Tilburg University, The Netherlands) and the CLiPS Research Centre (University of Antwerp, Belgium).

If you do scientific research in NLP, TimblServer will likely be of use to you.

There are three methods to install timblserver 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 timblserver Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install timblserver

Install timblserver Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install timblserver

Install timblserver 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 timblserver using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install timblserver

How To Uninstall timblserver on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove timblserver

Uninstall timblserver And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove timblserver

Remove timblserver Configurations and Data

To remove timblserver configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge timblserver

Remove timblserver configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge timblserver

Dependencies

timblserver have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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