How To Install textcat on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install textcat in Fedora 36. textcat is Written language identification

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install textcat on Fedora 36.

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 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install textcat.

Install textcat on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install textcat using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install textcat

Install textcat on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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 36

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

sudo dnf remove textcat

textcat Package Contents on Fedora 36

/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 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).