How to Install and Uninstall mecab Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: May 02,2024

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "mecab" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to install mecab on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                mecab
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "mecab" package

Please follow the steps below to uninstall mecab on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


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

Package: mecab
Source: mecab (0.996-14)
Version: 0.996-14+b14
Installed-Size: 925
Maintainer: Natural Language Processing (Japanese)
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), libmecab2 (>= 0.996), 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_0.996-14+b14_amd64.deb
Size: 160016
MD5sum: 629d624bfe68b9bcf5e3e5eb7471d55d
SHA256: 95ed192b6153b92a23b486ebcaf90314f872d55863bb2d4c3c4eb3ea2e137f4f