How to Install and Uninstall mecab Package on Debian 11 (Bullseye)

Last updated: May 02,2024

1. Install "mecab" package

This tutorial shows how to install mecab on Debian 11 (Bullseye)


    
        
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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 11 (Bullseye):


    
        
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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 11 (Bullseye)

Package: mecab
Source: mecab (0.996-14)
Version: 0.996-14+b4
Installed-Size: 926
Maintainer: Natural Language Processing (Japanese)
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.5), 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+b4_amd64.deb
Size: 162628
MD5sum: 2f368521863617d73930c15659a4cd95
SHA256: b74cf02709c7387bf13ec4d64fde78eb9851a74b1a78cddb5ac4285f30256bd3