How to Install and Uninstall mecab Package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Last updated: May 02,2024

1. Install "mecab" package

Please follow the guidelines below to install mecab on Debian 10 (Buster)

$ sudo apt update $ sudo apt install mecab

2. Uninstall "mecab" package

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall mecab on Debian 10 (Buster):

$ sudo apt remove mecab $ sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove

3. Information about the mecab package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Package: mecab
Version: 0.996-6
Installed-Size: 916
Maintainer: Natural Language Processing (Japanese)
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.5), libgcc1 (>= 1:3.0), libmecab2, libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1), mecab-jumandic | mecab-ipadic
Description: Japanese morphological analysis system
Description-md5: e4eab18e2611f99ded7dca3f78c46fe9
Homepage: https://taku910.github.io/mecab/
Tag: culture::japanese, field::linguistics, interface::commandline,
role::program
Section: misc
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/m/mecab/mecab_0.996-6_amd64.deb
Size: 161476
MD5sum: 84a4c7d7a5472406ad43a6e64c7bd14e
SHA256: a9b88af785b7fb68cb1a80803b6f8cc1af05230421c83549cb21bd64564c0023