How To Install mecab on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mecab on CentOS 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 CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mecab.
Install mecab on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install mecab using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install mecab
Install mecab on CentOS 8 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 mecab using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install mecab
How To Uninstall mecab on CentOS 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 CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.