How To Install libstemmer-tools on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libstemmer-tools on Kali Linux.

What is libstemmer-tools

libstemmer-tools 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 It also provides access to the classic Porter stemming algorithm for English: although this has been superseded by an improved algorithm, the original algorithm may be of interest to information retrieval researchers wishing to reproduce results of earlier experiments.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 “stemwords”, a simple utility for stemming words.

There are three methods to install libstemmer-tools 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 libstemmer-tools Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install libstemmer-tools

Install libstemmer-tools Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libstemmer-tools

Install libstemmer-tools 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 libstemmer-tools using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libstemmer-tools

How To Uninstall libstemmer-tools on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libstemmer-tools package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libstemmer-tools

Uninstall libstemmer-tools And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libstemmer-tools

Remove libstemmer-tools Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge libstemmer-tools

Remove libstemmer-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libstemmer-tools

Dependencies

libstemmer-tools have the following dependencies:

• libstemmer0d
• libc6

References

• libstemmer-tools website

Summary

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