How to Install and Uninstall vowpal-wabbit Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: December 28,2024

1. Install "vowpal-wabbit" package

Please follow the steps below to install vowpal-wabbit on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                vowpal-wabbit
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "vowpal-wabbit" package

This is a short guide on how to uninstall vowpal-wabbit on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the vowpal-wabbit package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: vowpal-wabbit
Priority: optional
Section: universe/science
Installed-Size: 164
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Yaroslav Halchenko
Architecture: amd64
Version: 8.1.1-1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libgcc1 (>= 1:3.0), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2), libvw0 (= 8.1.1-1)
Suggests: vowpal-wabbit-doc
Filename: pool/universe/v/vowpal-wabbit/vowpal-wabbit_8.1.1-1_amd64.deb
Size: 46610
MD5sum: df2ec569418390f9e7387c1b264ab6f1
SHA1: 482a32c511d870066c31565a0d354362ef47aca0
SHA256: 52b1408386a383479a62d669a30e2530104f3a42e446c9d42bff68223c15b56e
Description-en: fast and scalable online machine learning algorithm
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
Description-md5: c504a867f6af312f4a199155e5d24098
Homepage: http://hunch.net/~vw/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu