How To Install libvoikko1 on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libvoikko1 on Ubuntu.
What is libvoikko1
libvoikko1 is:
Libvoikko is a library of free natural language processing tools. It aims to provide support for languages that are not well served by other existing free linguistic tools.
The library supports multiple backends, of which VFST and HFST are enabled in the default build:
- VFST: Finite state transducer format used for Finnish morphology and as an experimental language independent backend.
- HFST (Helsinki Finite-State Transducer Technology): Supports ZHFST speller archives for various languages.
- Experimental backends: Weighted VFST and Lttoolbox.
Libvoikko provides spell checking, hyphenation, grammar checking and morphological analysis for Finnish language. Spell checking is supported for other languages through the HFST backend.
This package contains the shared library.
There are three methods to install libvoikko1 on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libvoikko1 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libvoikko1 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libvoikko1
Install libvoikko1 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libvoikko1 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libvoikko1
Install libvoikko1 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 libvoikko1 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libvoikko1
How To Uninstall libvoikko1 on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the libvoikko1 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libvoikko1
Uninstall libvoikko1 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libvoikko1 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libvoikko1
Remove libvoikko1 Configurations and Data
To remove libvoikko1 configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libvoikko1
Remove libvoikko1 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libvoikko1 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libvoikko1
Dependencies
libvoikko1 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libvoikko1 package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.