Installing NLTK for Python 2.6 on Ubuntu 9.10
Install Python Setup Tools
sudo apt-get install python-setuptools
Install NLTK Python egg
sudo easy_install http://nltk.googlecode.com/files/nltk-2.0b8-py2.6.egg
python
>>> import nltk
>>> nltk.download()
Donwload the needed resources and start coding:
>>> from nltk.book import *
>>> text1.concordance('Whale')