How To Install sentencepiece-tools on CentOS 8

sentencepiece-tools is Tools for SentencePiece

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install sentencepiece-tools on CentOS 8.

What is sentencepiece-tools

This package contains tools for manipulate models for SentencePiece.

We can use yum or dnf to install sentencepiece-tools on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install sentencepiece-tools.

Install sentencepiece-tools 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 sentencepiece-tools using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install sentencepiece-tools

Install sentencepiece-tools 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 sentencepiece-tools using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install sentencepiece-tools

How To Uninstall sentencepiece-tools on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the sentencepiece-tools package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove sentencepiece-tools

sentencepiece-tools Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/spm_decode
/usr/bin/spm_encode
/usr/bin/spm_export_vocab
/usr/bin/spm_normalize
/usr/bin/spm_train
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2c
/usr/lib/.build-id/2c/422777eaeb43c54eed2743d0bca24452ae2166
/usr/lib/.build-id/75
/usr/lib/.build-id/75/0a407d36c2a13047610ccdc5cec1a1dcf88576
/usr/lib/.build-id/9c
/usr/lib/.build-id/9c/a11c87a6dd5e04c66ff867568229a20d3359c7
/usr/lib/.build-id/a6
/usr/lib/.build-id/a6/902dc443fa5d1c51e500a8035faf79f79d1809
/usr/lib/.build-id/e3
/usr/lib/.build-id/e3/96bf6d25f9bb798445d575b8c0dacf2adc3606

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install sentencepiece-tools on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.