How To Install libstemmer on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libstemmer on CentOS 7.
What is libstemmer
Snowball stemming algorithms for use in Information Retrieval 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 improved algorithm, the original algorithm may be of interest to information retrieval researchers wishing to reproduce results of earlier experiments.
We can use yum or dnf to install libstemmer on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libstemmer.
Install libstemmer on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install libstemmer using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libstemmer
Install libstemmer on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install libstemmer using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install libstemmer
How To Uninstall libstemmer on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the libstemmer package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove libstemmer
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libstemmer on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
