How To Install python-snowballstemmer on Debian 10

Learn how to install python-snowballstemmer on Debian 10 with this tutorial. python-snowballstemmer is Pure Python Snowball stemming library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-snowballstemmer on Debian 10.

What is python-snowballstemmer

python-snowballstemmer is:

Snowball stemming library collection for Python, provides 16 stemmer algorithms (15 + Poerter English stemmer) generated from Snowball algorithms. It includes following language algorithms:

  • Danish
  • Dutch
  • English (Standard, Porter)
  • Finnish
  • French
  • German
  • Hungarian
  • Italian
  • Norwegian
  • Portuguese
  • Romanian
  • Russian
  • Spanish
  • Swedish
  • Turkish

There are three methods to install python-snowballstemmer on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install python-snowballstemmer Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install python-snowballstemmer using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install python-snowballstemmer

Install python-snowballstemmer Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install python-snowballstemmer using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install python-snowballstemmer

Install python-snowballstemmer 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install python-snowballstemmer using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install python-snowballstemmer

How To Uninstall python-snowballstemmer on Debian 10

To uninstall only the python-snowballstemmer package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove python-snowballstemmer

Uninstall python-snowballstemmer And Its Dependencies

To uninstall python-snowballstemmer and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-snowballstemmer

Remove python-snowballstemmer Configurations and Data

To remove python-snowballstemmer configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge python-snowballstemmer

Remove python-snowballstemmer configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove python-snowballstemmer configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-snowballstemmer

Dependencies

python-snowballstemmer have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-snowballstemmer package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.