How to Install and Uninstall polygen Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 18,2024

1. Install "polygen" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install polygen on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "polygen" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall polygen on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the polygen package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: polygen
Priority: optional
Section: universe/games
Installed-Size: 546
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian OCaml Maintainers
Architecture: all
Version: 1.0.6.ds2-14build1
Depends: ocaml-base-nox-4.02.3
Recommends: polygen-data
Filename: pool/universe/p/polygen/polygen_1.0.6.ds2-14build1_all.deb
Size: 82558
MD5sum: 9d4bb3abd43fe1dd3f0253530d2a43c4
SHA1: 64ad7d133622cd536953f127886b0d0432a61f71
SHA256: 00306af409e4abec6c97e0696364d4d20c505566518a5f8a5880f4fb081950b5
Description-en: generator of random sentences from grammar definitions
PolyGen is a program for generating random sentences according to a grammar
definition, that is following custom syntactical and lexical rules.
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Formally, it is an interpreter of a language itself designed to define
languages, where to interpret means executing a source program in real time
and eventually outputting its result.
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Here a source program is a grammar definition, the execution consists in the
exploration of such grammar by selecting a random path and the result is the
sentence built on the way.
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Though PolyGen is quite a serious piece of software then, what else would be
more noble for it than being used as a parody tool for linguistical habits,
stereotypes and trends of this foolish era?
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Principles of parody are focusing a ridiculous topic and eventually
abstracting its rules and schemes (here in terms of a grammar definition) by
which reproducing it through the variatio device. And randomization is
perfect at this purpose thanks to its purely asemantic behaviour =:)
Description-md5: fe4f8df1d93b64d4da65330c339e6587
Homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/polygen/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu