How To Install fasttext on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install fasttext on CentOS 7. fasttext is Efficient learning of word representations and sentence

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fasttext on CentOS 7.

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 CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fasttext.

Install fasttext on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install fasttext

Install fasttext on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

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

sudo dnf -y install fasttext

How To Uninstall fasttext on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove fasttext

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fasttext on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.