diff --git a/scripts/setup-centos9.sh b/scripts/setup-centos9.sh
index 1583334cd8608..b9c7a8f701460 100755
--- a/scripts/setup-centos9.sh
+++ b/scripts/setup-centos9.sh
@@ -178,12 +178,9 @@ function install_duckdb {
 
 function install_stemmer {
   wget_and_untar https://snowballstem.org/dist/libstemmer_c-${STEMMER_VERSION}.tar.gz stemmer
-  pushd $SCRIPTDIR/../CMake/resolve_dependency_modules/libstemmer
-  PATCH_DIR=$(pwd)
-  popd
   (
     cd stemmer
-    git apply ${PATCH_DIR}/Makefile.patch
+    sed -i '/CPPFLAGS=-Iinclude/ s/$/ -fPIC/' Makefile
     make clean && make "-j${NPROC}"
     ${SUDO} cp libstemmer.a /usr/local/lib/
     ${SUDO} cp include/libstemmer.h /usr/local/include/
diff --git a/scripts/setup-ubuntu.sh b/scripts/setup-ubuntu.sh
index 2d26bbf707a1a..114ae3b371d24 100755
--- a/scripts/setup-ubuntu.sh
+++ b/scripts/setup-ubuntu.sh
@@ -187,12 +187,9 @@ function install_duckdb {
 
 function install_stemmer {
   wget_and_untar https://snowballstem.org/dist/libstemmer_c-${STEMMER_VERSION}.tar.gz stemmer
-  pushd $SCRIPTDIR/../CMake/resolve_dependency_modules/libstemmer
-  PATCH_DIR=$(pwd)
-  popd
   (
     cd stemmer
-    git apply ${PATCH_DIR}/Makefile.patch
+    sed -i '/CPPFLAGS=-Iinclude/ s/$/ -fPIC/' Makefile
     make clean && make "-j${NPROC}"
     ${SUDO} cp libstemmer.a /usr/local/lib/
     ${SUDO} cp include/libstemmer.h /usr/local/include/