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

Last updated: February 03,2025

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "mecab-utils" package

Please follow the guidelines below to install mecab-utils on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


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

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall mecab-utils 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 mecab-utils package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: mecab-utils
Source: mecab (0.996-14)
Version: 0.996-14+b14
Installed-Size: 90
Maintainer: Natural Language Processing (Japanese)
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), libmecab2 (>= 0.996)
Description: Support programs of Mecab
Description-md5: b3477ba41ed2882195928af3796a1490
Homepage: https://taku910.github.io/mecab/
Tag: culture::japanese, field::linguistics, interface::commandline,
role::program, works-with::dictionary
Section: misc
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/m/mecab/mecab-utils_0.996-14+b14_amd64.deb
Size: 6328
MD5sum: cf435e92b1bd9fe02049924c5bf31b2f
SHA256: f2ba9684634044683680dac5a305d4418050ba52ce803f0ee1d1be9f5eb4c4a2