How To Install mbtserver on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install mbtserver on Kali Linux. mbtserver is Server extensions for the MBT tagger

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mbtserver on Kali Linux.

What is mbtserver

mbtserver is:

MbtServer extends Mbt with a server layer, running as a TCP server. Mbt is a memory-based tagger-generator and tagger for natural language processing. MbtServer provides the possibility to access a trained tagger from multiple sessions. It also allows one to run and access different taggers in parallel.

MbtServer is a product of the Centre for Language and Speech Technology (Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands), the ILK Research Group (Tilburg University, The Netherlands) and the CLiPS Research Centre (University of Antwerp, Belgium).

If you do scientific research in natural language processing, MbtServer will likely be of use to you.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install mbtserver

Install mbtserver Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install mbtserver

Install mbtserver 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 mbtserver using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install mbtserver

How To Uninstall mbtserver on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove mbtserver

Uninstall mbtserver And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove mbtserver

Remove mbtserver Configurations and Data

To remove mbtserver configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge mbtserver

Remove mbtserver configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mbtserver

Dependencies

mbtserver have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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