How To Install fasttext-libs on CentOS 8

fasttext-libs is Runtime libraries for fastText

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.