How To Install weka on Debian 12

Learn how to install weka on Debian 12 with this tutorial. weka is Machine learning algorithms for data mining tasks

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install weka on Debian 12.

What is weka

weka is:

Weka is a collection of machine learning algorithms in Java that can either be used from the command-line, or called from your own Java code. Weka is also ideally suited for developing new machine learning schemes.

Implemented schemes cover decision tree inducers, rule learners, model tree generators, support vector machines, locally weighted regression, instance-based learning, bagging, boosting, and stacking. Also included are clustering methods, and an association rule learner. Apart from actual learning schemes, Weka also contains a large variety of tools that can be used for pre-processing datasets.

This package contains the binaries and examples.

There are three methods to install weka on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install weka Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install weka

Install weka Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install weka

Install weka 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 weka using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install weka

How To Uninstall weka on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove weka

Uninstall weka And Its Dependencies

To uninstall weka and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove weka

Remove weka Configurations and Data

To remove weka configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge weka

Remove weka configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge weka

Dependencies

weka have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install weka package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.