How To Install mecab on AlmaLinux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install mecab in AlmaLinux 8. mecab is Yet Another Part-of-Speech and Morphological Analyzer

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mecab on AlmaLinux 8.

What is mecab

MeCab is a open source morphological analyzer which uses CRF (Conditional Random Fields) as the estimation of parameters. NOTE You have to install MeCab dictionary rpm to make use of MeCab.

We can use yum or dnf to install mecab on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mecab.

Install mecab on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install mecab

Install mecab on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install mecab

How To Uninstall mecab on AlmaLinux 8

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

sudo dnf remove mecab

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mecab on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.