How To Install mecab-ipadic-EUCJP on CentOS 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install mecab-ipadic-EUCJP on CentOS 8. mecab-ipadic-EUCJP is IPA dictionary for Mecab with encoded by EUC-JP

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mecab-ipadic-EUCJP on CentOS 8.

What is mecab-ipadic-EUCJP

MeCab IPA is a dictionary for MeCab using CRF estimation based on IPA corpus. This dictionary is for EUC-JP use.

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

Install mecab-ipadic-EUCJP 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-ipadic-EUCJP using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install mecab-ipadic-EUCJP

Install mecab-ipadic-EUCJP 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-ipadic-EUCJP using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install mecab-ipadic-EUCJP

How To Uninstall mecab-ipadic-EUCJP on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove mecab-ipadic-EUCJP

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mecab-ipadic-EUCJP on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.