How To Install libmecab-java on Debian 10

Learn how to install libmecab-java on Debian 10 with this tutorial. libmecab-java is mecab binding for Java - java classes

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmecab-java on Debian 10.

What is libmecab-java

libmecab-java is:

Mecab is a morphological analysis system. It reads Japanese sentences from the standard input, segments them into morpheme sequences, and outputs them to the standard output with many additional pieces of information (pronunciation, semantic information, etc).

This package is built for Java.

There are three methods to install libmecab-java on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libmecab-java Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libmecab-java using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libmecab-java

Install libmecab-java Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libmecab-java using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libmecab-java

Install libmecab-java Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install libmecab-java using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libmecab-java

How To Uninstall libmecab-java on Debian 10

To uninstall only the libmecab-java package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libmecab-java

Uninstall libmecab-java And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libmecab-java and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libmecab-java

Remove libmecab-java Configurations and Data

To remove libmecab-java configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libmecab-java

Remove libmecab-java configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libmecab-java configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libmecab-java

Dependencies

libmecab-java have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmecab-java package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.