Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install autoclass on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is autoclass
autoclass is:
AutoClass solves the problem of automatic discovery of classes in data
(sometimes called clustering, or unsupervised learning), as distinct
from the generation of class descriptions from labeled examples
(called supervised learning). It aims to discover the “natural”
classes in the data. AutoClass is applicable to observations of
things that can be described by a set of attributes, without referring
to other things. The data values corresponding to each attribute are
limited to be either numbers or the elements of a fixed set of
symbols. With numeric data, a measurement error must be provided.
There are three methods to install autoclass on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install autoclass Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install autoclass using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install autoclass
Install autoclass Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install autoclass using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install autoclass
Install autoclass 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 autoclass using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install autoclass
How To Uninstall autoclass on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the autoclass package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove autoclass
Uninstall autoclass And Its Dependencies
To uninstall autoclass and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove autoclass
Remove autoclass Configurations and Data
To remove autoclass configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge autoclass
Remove autoclass configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove autoclass configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge autoclass
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install autoclass package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
