How To Install snowball-data on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install snowball-data on Kali Linux. snowball-data is test data for Snowball stemming algorithms

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install snowball-data on Kali Linux.

What is snowball-data

snowball-data is:

Snowball provides access to efficient algorithms for calculating a “stemmed” form of a word. This is a form with most of the common morphological endings removed; hopefully representing a common linguistic base form. This is most useful in building search engines and information retrieval software; for example, a search with stemming enabled should be able to find a document containing “cycling” given the query “cycles”.

Snowball provides algorithms for several (mainly European) languages. It also provides access to the classic Porter stemming algorithm for English: although this has been superseded by an improved algorithm, the original algorithm may be of interest to information retrieval researchers wishing to reproduce results of earlier experiments.

This package contains the test data, which is used by Snowball test suite.

There are three methods to install snowball-data on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install snowball-data Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install snowball-data

Install snowball-data Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install snowball-data

Install snowball-data Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install snowball-data

How To Uninstall snowball-data on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the snowball-data package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove snowball-data

Uninstall snowball-data And Its Dependencies

To uninstall snowball-data and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove snowball-data

Remove snowball-data Configurations and Data

To remove snowball-data configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge snowball-data

Remove snowball-data configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge snowball-data

Dependencies

snowball-data have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install snowball-data package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.