How To Install fasttext on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install fasttext on Rocky Linux 8. fasttext is Efficient learning of word representations and sentence classification

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fasttext on Rocky Linux 8.

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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fasttext.

Install fasttext on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install fasttext

Install fasttext on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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 Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove fasttext

fasttext Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/fasttext
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/03
/usr/lib/.build-id/03/59adba3e31f675f441243597b0e43915251eb0

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fasttext on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.