How To Install wordnet.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install wordnet.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. wordnet.x86_64 is A lexical database for the English language

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install wordnet.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is wordnet.x86_64

WordNet is a large lexical database of English, developed under the direction of George A. Miller. Nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are grouped into sets of cognitive synonyms (synsets), each expressing a distinct concept. Synsets are interlinked by means of conceptual-semantic and lexical relations. The resulting network of meaningfully related words and concepts can be navigated with the browser. WordNet is also freely and publicly available for download. WordNet’s structure makes it a useful tool for computational linguistics and natural language processing.

We can use yum to install wordnet.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install wordnet.x86_64.

Install wordnet.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install wordnet.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install wordnet.x86_64

How To Uninstall wordnet.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the wordnet.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove wordnet.x86_64

wordnet.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/wn
/usr/lib64/libWN.so.3
/usr/lib64/libWN.so.3.0.0
/usr/share/doc/wordnet-3.0
/usr/share/doc/wordnet-3.0/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/wordnet-3.0/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/wordnet-3.0/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/wordnet-3.0/README
/usr/share/man/man1/grind.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/wn.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/wnintro.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/cntlist.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/lexnames.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/senseidx.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/wndb.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/wninput.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/wnintro.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/morphy.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/uniqbeg.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/wngloss.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/wngroups.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/wnintro.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/wnlicens.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/wnpkgs.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/wnstats.7.gz
/usr/share/wordnet-3.0
/usr/share/wordnet-3.0/dict
/usr/share/wordnet-3.0/dict/adj.exc
/usr/share/wordnet-3.0/dict/adv.exc
/usr/share/wordnet-3.0/dict/cntlist
/usr/share/wordnet-3.0/dict/cntlist.rev
/usr/share/wordnet-3.0/dict/data.adj
/usr/share/wordnet-3.0/dict/data.adv
/usr/share/wordnet-3.0/dict/data.noun
/usr/share/wordnet-3.0/dict/data.verb
/usr/share/wordnet-3.0/dict/frames.vrb
/usr/share/wordnet-3.0/dict/index.adj
/usr/share/wordnet-3.0/dict/index.adv
/usr/share/wordnet-3.0/dict/index.noun
/usr/share/wordnet-3.0/dict/index.sense
/usr/share/wordnet-3.0/dict/index.verb
/usr/share/wordnet-3.0/dict/lexnames
/usr/share/wordnet-3.0/dict/log.grind.3.0
/usr/share/wordnet-3.0/dict/noun.exc
/usr/share/wordnet-3.0/dict/sentidx.vrb
/usr/share/wordnet-3.0/dict/sents.vrb
/usr/share/wordnet-3.0/dict/verb.Framestext
/usr/share/wordnet-3.0/dict/verb.exc
/usr/share/wordnet-3.0/lib

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install wordnet.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.