Q:

NLTK - Install panlex_lite manually

I'm new to NLTK, I downloaded most of the nltk packages with nltk.download(). But when I try install panlex_lite corpora it always get stuck. Then I downloaded the panlex_lite.zip file of size 2.2 GB from the internet. But I don't know how to get that downladed zip to the nltk datas and update the NLTK Downloader. I'm a Ubuntu 16.10 machine and the python version is 3.5. please help me.

A:

You've got several options here:
Option 1
With the following, similar to what you've tried
>>> import nltk
>>> nltk.download('panlex_lite')

Option 2
Run the following command against python
python -m nltk.downloader panlex_lite

Option 3
Panalex itself can be found by visiting this link, be careful its 2.1gb. Keep note of this, which states that where the location that nltk will look for data, for example on unix its in /usr/share/nltk_data so if you download the data from another source other than nltk downloader, be sure to move it to the proper folder. 

