How To Install foma on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install foma on Fedora 34.
What is foma
Foma can be used for constructing finite-state automata and transducers. It has support for many natural language processing applications such as producing morphological analyzers. It is sufficiently generic to use for a large number of purposes in addition to NLP. The foma interface is similar to the Xerox xfst interface. This package includes the foma command line tools.
We can use yum or dnf to install foma on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install foma.
Install foma 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 foma using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install foma
Install foma 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 foma using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install foma
How To Uninstall foma on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the foma package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove foma
foma Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/cgflookup
/usr/bin/flookup
/usr/bin/foma
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/62
/usr/lib/.build-id/62/178dd96d083d1e97e3b276d5061f12177e3d8b
/usr/lib/.build-id/86
/usr/lib/.build-id/86/61d574f3d2b3f09df75de7635a8b5ae874fd1e
/usr/lib/.build-id/bb
/usr/lib/.build-id/bb/068b01e1b10d4a8af27ce04d48b5e0ebf824f0
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install foma on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
