How to Install and Uninstall mecab-utils Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: February 02,2025

1. Install "mecab-utils" package

This is a short guide on how to install mecab-utils on Kali Linux


    
        
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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

Learn how to uninstall mecab-utils on Kali Linux:


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                mecab-utils
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the mecab-utils package on Kali Linux

Package: mecab-utils
Source: mecab (0.996-14)
Version: 0.996-14+b16
Installed-Size: 90
Maintainer: Natural Language Processing (Japanese)
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), libmecab2 (>= 0.996)
Size: 6324
SHA256: 06f41e8dd63ab23240fe83243cd490946559e48a6510aa3f7147fac7a0252b27
SHA1: f90176230d8a76388972b366ae1e1f4bb2555de4
MD5sum: cf51394eb52b7172e1034b0683067b98
Description: Support programs of Mecab
This package provides the dictionary compiler to convert a dictionary
written in text format to a binary data for Mecab, that is a Japanese
morphological analysis system. This package is necessary to install
dictionary packages for Mecab like mecab-jumandic.
Description-md5:
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+b16_amd64.deb