How To Install timblserver 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 timblserver on Ubuntu.
What is timblserver
timblserver is:
timblserver is a TiMBL wrapper; it adds server functionality to TiMBL. It allows TiMBL to run multiple experiments as a TCP server, optionally via HTTP.
The Tilburg Memory Based Learner, TiMBL, is a tool for Natural Language Processing research, and for many other domains where classification tasks are learned from examples.
TimblServer is a product of the ILK Research Group (Tilburg University, The Netherlands) and the CLiPS Research Centre (University of Antwerp, Belgium).
If you do scientific research in NLP, TimblServer will likely be of use to you.
There are three methods to install timblserver 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 timblserver Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install timblserver using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install timblserver
Install timblserver Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install timblserver using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install timblserver
Install timblserver 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 timblserver using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install timblserver
How To Uninstall timblserver on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the timblserver package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove timblserver
Uninstall timblserver And Its Dependencies
To uninstall timblserver and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove timblserver
Remove timblserver Configurations and Data
To remove timblserver configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge timblserver
Remove timblserver configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove timblserver configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge timblserver
Dependencies
timblserver have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install timblserver package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.