How To Install opennlp on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install opennlp on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is opennlp
opennlp is:
The Apache OpenNLP library is a machine learning based toolkit for the processing of natural language text. It supports the most common NLP tasks, such as tokenization, sentence segmentation, part-of-speech tagging, named entity extraction, chunking, parsing, and coreference resolution. These tasks are usually required to build more advanced text processing services. OpenNLP also included maximum entropy and perceptron based machine learning.
This package contains the command line wrapper.
There are three methods to install opennlp on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install opennlp Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install opennlp using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install opennlp
Install opennlp Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install opennlp using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install opennlp
Install opennlp 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 opennlp using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install opennlp
How To Uninstall opennlp on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the opennlp package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove opennlp
Uninstall opennlp And Its Dependencies
To uninstall opennlp and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove opennlp
Remove opennlp Configurations and Data
To remove opennlp configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge opennlp
Remove opennlp configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove opennlp configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge opennlp
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install opennlp package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
