How To Install libvw0 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 libvw0 on Ubuntu.

What is `libvw0`

libvw0 is:

Vowpal Wabbit is a fast online machine learning algorithm. The core algorithm is specialist gradient descent (GD) on a loss function (several are available). VW features:

flexible input data specification
speedy learning
scalability (bounded memory footprint, suitable for distributed computation)
feature pairing

This package contains vowpal-wabbit’s dynamic libraries.

There are three methods to install libvw0 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 libvw0 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libvw0 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libvw0

Install libvw0 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libvw0 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libvw0

Install libvw0 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 libvw0 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libvw0

How To Uninstall libvw0 on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the libvw0 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libvw0

Uninstall libvw0 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libvw0 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libvw0

Remove libvw0 Configurations and Data

To remove libvw0 configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libvw0

Remove libvw0 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libvw0 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libvw0

Dependencies

libvw0 have the following dependencies:

References

libvw0 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libvw0 package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.