How To Install mecab-ipadic on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mecab-ipadic
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is mecab-ipadic
mecab-ipadic is:
This package provides IPA dictionary converted for Mecab, that is a Japanese morphological analysis system. This dictionary is organized in the IPA grammar system. Task: lamp-server
There are three methods to install mecab-ipadic
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install mecab-ipadic Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mecab-ipadic
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mecab-ipadic
Install mecab-ipadic Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mecab-ipadic
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mecab-ipadic
Install mecab-ipadic Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install mecab-ipadic
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mecab-ipadic
How To Uninstall mecab-ipadic on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the mecab-ipadic
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mecab-ipadic
Uninstall mecab-ipadic And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mecab-ipadic
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mecab-ipadic
Remove mecab-ipadic Configurations and Data
To remove mecab-ipadic
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mecab-ipadic
Remove mecab-ipadic configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mecab-ipadic
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mecab-ipadic
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mecab-ipadic
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.