How to Install and Uninstall libmecab-dev Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: May 18,2024

You can also install and uninstall the libmecab-dev on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

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1. Install "libmecab-dev" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install libmecab-dev on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "libmecab-dev" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall libmecab-dev on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the libmecab-dev package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: libmecab-dev
Source: mecab (0.996-14)
Version: 0.996-14+b14
Installed-Size: 2925
Maintainer: Natural Language Processing (Japanese)
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libmecab2 (= 0.996-14+b14)
Description: Header files of Mecab
Description-md5: 87197d521c6686e342ae43fe6394b7da
Homepage: https://taku910.github.io/mecab/
Tag: devel::library, role::devel-lib
Section: libdevel
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/m/mecab/libmecab-dev_0.996-14+b14_amd64.deb
Size: 278864
MD5sum: 5ece933eea1eae29704e0b21de073eb1
SHA256: 67193b15b71935eeaeb8ed69e8de68db33cf894c1226f051a1f3c5bc23ce3b03