How To Install mecab-ipadic on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mecab-ipadic on CentOS 8.
What is mecab-ipadic
MeCab IPA is a dictionary for MeCab using CRF estimation based on IPA corpus. This dictionary is for UTF-8 use.
We can use yum or dnf to install mecab-ipadic on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mecab-ipadic.
Install mecab-ipadic 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 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install mecab-ipadic
Install mecab-ipadic 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 using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install mecab-ipadic
How To Uninstall mecab-ipadic on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the mecab-ipadic package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove mecab-ipadic
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mecab-ipadic on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.