How To Install unidic-mecab on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is unidic-mecab

unidic-mecab is:

unidic-mecab is a dictionary for Mecab (Japanese morphological analysis implementation), based on corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese (upstream publish it as unidic-cwj).

• All entries are based on the definition of “SUW (short-unit word)” that is specified by NINJAL (The National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics), which provides word segmentation in uniform size suited for linguistic research.
• It has three-layered structure with
  • lemma
  • form
  • spelling And it can provide a clear distinction of two types of word variant: spelling variant and form variant.
• It is useful for research of Speech processing since it can be added accent and shift in sound information.

This package is huge. You need more than 10GB of free space to download and install.

There are three methods to install unidic-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 unidic-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 unidic-mecab using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install unidic-mecab

Install unidic-mecab Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install unidic-mecab

Install unidic-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 unidic-mecab using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install unidic-mecab

How To Uninstall unidic-mecab on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove unidic-mecab

Uninstall unidic-mecab And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove unidic-mecab

Remove unidic-mecab Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge unidic-mecab

Remove unidic-mecab configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge unidic-mecab

Dependencies

unidic-mecab have the following dependencies:

References

• unidic-mecab website

Summary

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