How To Install textcat on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install textcat on Fedora 34.
What is textcat
TextCat is an implementation of the text categorization algorithm presented in Cavnar, W. B. and J. M. Trenkle, “N-Gram-Based Text Categorization”. TextCat uses this the technique to implement a written language identification. At the moment, it knows about 69 natural languages (counting Esperanto as a natural language).
We can use yum or dnf to install textcat on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install textcat.
Install textcat 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 textcat using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install textcat
Install textcat 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 textcat using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install textcat
How To Uninstall textcat on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the textcat package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove textcat
textcat Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/textcat
/usr/share/doc/textcat
/usr/share/doc/textcat/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/textcat/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/textcat/Copyright
/usr/share/doc/textcat/README
/usr/share/doc/textcat/textcat.pdf
/usr/share/textcat
/usr/share/textcat/lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/afrikaans.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/albanian.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/amharic-utf.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/arabic-iso8859_6.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/arabic-windows1256.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/armenian.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/basque.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/belarus-windows1251.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/bosnian.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/breton.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/bulgarian-iso8859_5.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/catalan.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/chinese-big5.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/chinese-gb2312.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/croatian-ascii.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/czech-iso8859_2.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/danish.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/dutch.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/english.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/esperanto.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/estonian.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/finnish.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/french.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/frisian.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/georgian.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/german.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/greek-iso8859-7.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/hebrew-iso8859_8.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/hindi.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/hungarian.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/icelandic.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/indonesian.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/irish.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/italian.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/japanese-euc_jp.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/japanese-shift_jis.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/korean.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/latin.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/latvian.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/lithuanian.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/malay.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/manx.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/marathi.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/mingo.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/nepali.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/norwegian.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/persian.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/polish.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/portuguese.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/quechua.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/romanian.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/rumantsch.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/russian-iso8859_5.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/russian-koi8_r.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/russian-windows1251.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/sanskrit.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/scots.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/scots_gaelic.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/serbian-ascii.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/slovak-ascii.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/slovak-windows1250.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/slovenian-ascii.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/slovenian-iso8859_2.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/spanish.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/swahili.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/swedish.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/tagalog.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/tamil.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/thai.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/turkish.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/ukrainian-koi8_u.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/vietnamese.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/welsh.lm
/usr/share/textcat/lm/yiddish-utf.lm
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install textcat on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.