How To Install mecab on Fedora 34

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mecab on Fedora 34.

What is mecab

MeCab is a open source morphological analyzer which uses CRF (Conditional Random Fields) as the estimation of parameters. NOTE You have to install MeCab dictionary rpm to make use of MeCab. mecab 0.996 3.fc34.1 x86_64 351 k mecab-0.996-3.fc34.1.src.rpm fedora Yet Another Part-of-Speech and Morphological Analyzer http BSD or LGPLv2+ or GPL+ MeCab is a open source morphological analyzer which uses CRF (Conditional Random Fields) as the estimation of parameters. NOTE You have to install MeCab dictionary rpm to make use of MeCab.

We can use yum or dnf to install mecab on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mecab.

Install mecab on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install mecab using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install mecab

Install mecab on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install mecab using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install mecab

How To Uninstall mecab on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the mecab package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove mecab

mecab Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/mecabrc
/usr/bin/mecab
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/00
/usr/lib/.build-id/00/08378d52f469f82bef58c9d1239322f6853b4a
/usr/lib/.build-id/1e
/usr/lib/.build-id/1e/c645dc505034683035c87e5df8f455779a2acf
/usr/lib/.build-id/5f
/usr/lib/.build-id/5f/53687f25b3cae3d7f776e7c99ca44f2532b8a6
/usr/lib/.build-id/75
/usr/lib/.build-id/75/1ef3073d5a00973794b40b14422b97cd8be589
/usr/lib/.build-id/b7
/usr/lib/.build-id/b7/5df66c7d6fdc46466ceeb960d6f1f0e7a4077f
/usr/lib/.build-id/e2
/usr/lib/.build-id/e2/a5bfaf3171295c093e6f7aaad7aa3a1a02560d
/usr/lib/.build-id/e8
/usr/lib/.build-id/e8/af721ad0db630be47d39c8978caaf119a97a43
/usr/lib64/libmecab.so.2
/usr/lib64/libmecab.so.2.0.0
/usr/lib64/mecab
/usr/lib64/mecab/dic
/usr/libexec/mecab
/usr/libexec/mecab/mecab-cost-train
/usr/libexec/mecab/mecab-dict-gen
/usr/libexec/mecab/mecab-dict-index
/usr/libexec/mecab/mecab-system-eval
/usr/libexec/mecab/mecab-test-gen
/usr/share/doc/mecab
/usr/share/doc/mecab/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/mecab/BSD
/usr/share/doc/mecab/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/mecab/GPL
/usr/share/doc/mecab/LGPL
/usr/share/doc/mecab/doc
/usr/share/doc/mecab/doc/bindings.html
/usr/share/doc/mecab/doc/dic-detail.html
/usr/share/doc/mecab/doc/dic.html
/usr/share/doc/mecab/doc/en
/usr/share/doc/mecab/doc/en/bindings.html
/usr/share/doc/mecab/doc/feature.html
/usr/share/doc/mecab/doc/feature.png
/usr/share/doc/mecab/doc/flow.png
/usr/share/doc/mecab/doc/format.html
/usr/share/doc/mecab/doc/index.html
/usr/share/doc/mecab/doc/learn.html
/usr/share/doc/mecab/doc/libmecab.html
/usr/share/doc/mecab/doc/mecab.css
/usr/share/doc/mecab/doc/mecab.html
/usr/share/doc/mecab/doc/partial.html
/usr/share/doc/mecab/doc/posid.html
/usr/share/doc/mecab/doc/result.png
/usr/share/doc/mecab/doc/soft.html
/usr/share/doc/mecab/doc/unk.html
/usr/share/doc/mecab/example
/usr/share/doc/mecab/example/example.c
/usr/share/doc/mecab/example/example.cpp
/usr/share/doc/mecab/example/example_lattice.c
/usr/share/doc/mecab/example/example_lattice.cpp
/usr/share/doc/mecab/example/thread_test.cpp
/usr/share/man/man1/mecab.1.gz
/etc/mecabrc
/usr/bin/mecab
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/09
/usr/lib/.build-id/09/76eea5a289f9b72470d55e2f298a97a0248137
/usr/lib/.build-id/35
/usr/lib/.build-id/35/5fafbf734a2fa6b29556c4ff801e3be6f8cd85
/usr/lib/.build-id/39
/usr/lib/.build-id/39/0236d8fdc772ebf9e8b8496d03885a691fc405
/usr/lib/.build-id/58
/usr/lib/.build-id/58/e779a572407f6e14d393530c00b6ff2de055a2
/usr/lib/.build-id/a2
/usr/lib/.build-id/a2/9ed88fff374f75a14a11b3029c0b558bd13188
/usr/lib/.build-id/ad
/usr/lib/.build-id/ad/abe9dc070812dc84f4df55d168a64b986c300e
/usr/lib/.build-id/c9
/usr/lib/.build-id/c9/f558754dcf166ebbdf4e02d1237e14df942a17
/usr/lib/libmecab.so.2
/usr/lib/libmecab.so.2.0.0
/usr/lib/mecab
/usr/lib/mecab/dic
/usr/libexec/mecab
/usr/libexec/mecab/mecab-cost-train
/usr/libexec/mecab/mecab-dict-gen
/usr/libexec/mecab/mecab-dict-index
/usr/libexec/mecab/mecab-system-eval
/usr/libexec/mecab/mecab-test-gen
/usr/share/doc/mecab
/usr/share/doc/mecab/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/mecab/BSD
/usr/share/doc/mecab/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/mecab/GPL
/usr/share/doc/mecab/LGPL
/usr/share/doc/mecab/doc
/usr/share/doc/mecab/doc/bindings.html
/usr/share/doc/mecab/doc/dic-detail.html
/usr/share/doc/mecab/doc/dic.html
/usr/share/doc/mecab/doc/en
/usr/share/doc/mecab/doc/en/bindings.html
/usr/share/doc/mecab/doc/feature.html
/usr/share/doc/mecab/doc/feature.png
/usr/share/doc/mecab/doc/flow.png
/usr/share/doc/mecab/doc/format.html
/usr/share/doc/mecab/doc/index.html
/usr/share/doc/mecab/doc/learn.html
/usr/share/doc/mecab/doc/libmecab.html
/usr/share/doc/mecab/doc/mecab.css
/usr/share/doc/mecab/doc/mecab.html
/usr/share/doc/mecab/doc/partial.html
/usr/share/doc/mecab/doc/posid.html
/usr/share/doc/mecab/doc/result.png
/usr/share/doc/mecab/doc/soft.html
/usr/share/doc/mecab/doc/unk.html
/usr/share/doc/mecab/example
/usr/share/doc/mecab/example/example.c
/usr/share/doc/mecab/example/example.cpp
/usr/share/doc/mecab/example/example_lattice.c
/usr/share/doc/mecab/example/example_lattice.cpp
/usr/share/doc/mecab/example/thread_test.cpp
/usr/share/man/man1/mecab.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mecab on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.