How To Install fasttext-libs on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fasttext-libs on CentOS 8.
What is fasttext-libs
This package contains the libraries for fastText.
We can use yum or dnf to install fasttext-libs on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fasttext-libs.
Install fasttext-libs on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install fasttext-libs using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install fasttext-libs
Install fasttext-libs on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install fasttext-libs using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install fasttext-libs
How To Uninstall fasttext-libs on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the fasttext-libs package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove fasttext-libs
fasttext-libs Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/fd
/usr/lib/.build-id/fd/602dcb5deff6086e1a6b7edb1b7a3fbdc6e23d
/usr/lib64/libfasttext.so.0
/usr/share/doc/fasttext-libs
/usr/share/doc/fasttext-libs/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
/usr/share/doc/fasttext-libs/CONTRIBUTING.md
/usr/share/doc/fasttext-libs/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/fasttext-libs
/usr/share/licenses/fasttext-libs/LICENSE
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fasttext-libs on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.