How To Install mecab on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mecab on Rocky Linux 8.
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.
We can use yum or dnf to install mecab on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mecab.
Install mecab on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install mecab using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install mecab
Install mecab on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
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 Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the mecab package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove mecab
mecab Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/etc/mecabrc
/usr/bin/mecab
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/10
/usr/lib/.build-id/10/d377305f315c3176b4dafed75cb01cfad6b7cd
/usr/lib/.build-id/3f
/usr/lib/.build-id/3f/7e324887462f7b4d95c8628903ed322c8f7662
/usr/lib/.build-id/62
/usr/lib/.build-id/62/41c5f77d3ec9d4200f043b06ca315e6688660b
/usr/lib/.build-id/62/ba36ade1f0cebbe7e8da374775d5ac85dd9cc7
/usr/lib/.build-id/b7
/usr/lib/.build-id/b7/377de067fe9c2beda74008e58825782e3b2614
/usr/lib/.build-id/da
/usr/lib/.build-id/da/297ab12670712d91267cc3a76a866332e412f3
/usr/lib/.build-id/ea
/usr/lib/.build-id/ea/a1de174c5074ce311d0bf35f72664785870b79
/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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mecab on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.
