How To Install mecab on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mecab on Kali Linux.

What is mecab

mecab is:

Mecab is a morphological analysis system. It reads Japanese sentences from the standard input, segments them into morpheme sequences, and outputs them to the standard output with many additional pieces of information (pronunciation, semantic information, etc).

There are three methods to install mecab on Kali Linux. 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 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 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install mecab

Install mecab Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install mecab using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install mecab

Install mecab Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install mecab using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install mecab

How To Uninstall mecab on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove mecab

Uninstall mecab And Its Dependencies

To uninstall mecab and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove mecab

Remove mecab Configurations and Data

To remove mecab configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge mecab

Remove mecab configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove mecab configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mecab

Dependencies

mecab have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libmecab2
• mecab-jumandic

References

• mecab website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mecab package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.