How to Install and Uninstall wordnet-base Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: February 02,2025

You can also install and uninstall the wordnet-base on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "wordnet-base" package

Please follow the guidance below to install wordnet-base on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "wordnet-base" package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall wordnet-base on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the wordnet-base package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: wordnet-base
Source: wordnet
Version: 1:3.0-37
Installed-Size: 28496
Maintainer: Debian Science Team
Architecture: all
Recommends: wordnet
Description: electronic lexical database of English language (base data)
Description-md5: 780ba37270d38405be0d5a622e626eb0
Homepage: http://wordnet.princeton.edu/
Tag: culture::TODO, field::linguistics, made-of::dictionary, role::app-data,
works-with::dictionary
Section: text
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/w/wordnet/wordnet-base_3.0-37_all.deb
Size: 6467132
MD5sum: e52dcc79abc64fdc50b503a56a61118a
SHA256: 61060d960f9ada8fa120872312eccd3ecebfbab8c4579e4f5a74e1cf67620752