How To Install fasttext on Fedora 34

fasttext is Efficient learning of word representations and sentence classification

Introduction

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

What is fasttext

The fastText is a library for efficient learning of word representations and sentence classification.

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

Install fasttext 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 fasttext using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fasttext

Install fasttext 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 fasttext using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fasttext

How To Uninstall fasttext on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove fasttext

fasttext Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/fasttext
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/10
/usr/lib/.build-id/10/1b14e3c52ed4a9f49972344fe5d8a1ad3c7c85

References

Summary

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