How To Install sentencepiece 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 sentencepiece on Ubuntu.
What is sentencepiece
sentencepiece is:
SentencePiece is an unsupervised text tokenizer/detokenizer mainly designed for Neural Network-based text generation systems where the vocabulary size is predetermined prior to the neural model training.
There are three methods to install sentencepiece 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 sentencepiece Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install sentencepiece using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install sentencepiece
Install sentencepiece Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install sentencepiece using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install sentencepiece
Install sentencepiece 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 sentencepiece using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install sentencepiece
How To Uninstall sentencepiece on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the sentencepiece package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove sentencepiece
Uninstall sentencepiece And Its Dependencies
To uninstall sentencepiece and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove sentencepiece
Remove sentencepiece Configurations and Data
To remove sentencepiece configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge sentencepiece
Remove sentencepiece configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove sentencepiece configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge sentencepiece
Dependencies
sentencepiece have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sentencepiece package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.