How to Install and Uninstall mecab Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: May 02,2024

1. Install "mecab" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to install mecab on Kali Linux


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

Learn how to uninstall mecab on Kali Linux:


    
        
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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 Kali Linux

Package: mecab
Source: mecab (0.996-14)
Version: 0.996-14+b16
Installed-Size: 925
Maintainer: Natural Language Processing (Japanese)
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), libmecab2 (>= 0.996), mecab-jumandic | mecab-ipadic
Size: 160060
SHA256: df0c73c96c51f59370f8f14aac12a51ed26d33754be47529f58b0930a32ce593
SHA1: 673e181b50f2f7a628be138bfb4caf6f321a933c
MD5sum: 1057367f8032888251b3d0180df6d632
Description: Japanese morphological analysis system
Mecab is a morphological analysis system. It reads Japanese
sentences from the standard input, segments them into morpheme
sequences, and outputs them to the standard output with many
additional pieces of information (pronunciation, semantic
information, etc).
Description-md5:
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+b16_amd64.deb