How To Install mecab-ipadic on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install mecab-ipadic on Rocky Linux 8. mecab-ipadic is IPA dictionary for MeCab

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mecab-ipadic on Rocky Linux 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 Rocky Linux 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 Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install mecab-ipadic

Install mecab-ipadic on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install mecab-ipadic

How To Uninstall mecab-ipadic on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove mecab-ipadic

mecab-ipadic Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib64/mecab/dic/ipadic
/usr/lib64/mecab/dic/ipadic/char.bin
/usr/lib64/mecab/dic/ipadic/dicrc
/usr/lib64/mecab/dic/ipadic/left-id.def
/usr/lib64/mecab/dic/ipadic/matrix.bin
/usr/lib64/mecab/dic/ipadic/pos-id.def
/usr/lib64/mecab/dic/ipadic/rewrite.def
/usr/lib64/mecab/dic/ipadic/right-id.def
/usr/lib64/mecab/dic/ipadic/sys.dic
/usr/lib64/mecab/dic/ipadic/unk.dic
/usr/share/doc/mecab-ipadic
/usr/share/doc/mecab-ipadic/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/mecab-ipadic/LICENSE.jp.html
/usr/share/doc/mecab-ipadic/LICENSE.rhel
/usr/share/doc/mecab-ipadic/README

References

mecab-ipadic website

Summary

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