How To Install python3-snowballstemmer on Debian 12

Learn how to install python3-snowballstemmer on Debian 12 with this tutorial. python3-snowballstemmer is Pure Python Snowball stemming library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-snowballstemmer on Debian 12.

What is python3-snowballstemmer

python3-snowballstemmer 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 It also provides access to the classic Porter stemming algorithm for English: although this has been superseded by an improved algorithm, the original algorithm may be of interest to information retrieval researchers wishing to reproduce results of earlier experiments.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 pure Python module that implements Snowball algorithms. When python3-stemmer package (which contains the C extension) is installed, it uses that extension instead of the pure Python code.

There are three methods to install python3-snowballstemmer on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install python3-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 python3-snowballstemmer using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install python3-snowballstemmer

Install python3-snowballstemmer Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install python3-snowballstemmer using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install python3-snowballstemmer

Install python3-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 python3-snowballstemmer using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install python3-snowballstemmer

How To Uninstall python3-snowballstemmer on Debian 12

To uninstall only the python3-snowballstemmer package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove python3-snowballstemmer

Uninstall python3-snowballstemmer And Its Dependencies

To uninstall python3-snowballstemmer and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-snowballstemmer

Remove python3-snowballstemmer Configurations and Data

To remove python3-snowballstemmer configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge python3-snowballstemmer

Remove python3-snowballstemmer configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove python3-snowballstemmer configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-snowballstemmer

Dependencies

python3-snowballstemmer have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-snowballstemmer package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.