How to Install and Uninstall mecab Package on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat)

Last updated: March 14,2025

1. Install "mecab" package

This tutorial shows how to install mecab on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat)


    
        
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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 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat):


    
        
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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 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat)

Package: mecab
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.996-14ubuntu1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/misc
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Natural Language Processing (Japanese)
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 925
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), libmecab2 (>= 0.996), mecab-jumandic | mecab-ipadic
Filename: pool/universe/m/mecab/mecab_0.996-14ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Size: 134904
MD5sum: cddcfb30d0758b2b892167e30ab1da49
SHA1: 271ef37c9ec0f4e7f6208e7aa8ecf69083c4aea7
SHA256: f582778bba4fc40bd7bd28da08d7649beaf5f604da43730b3f11a7e9ee0f4d4c
SHA512: cd3b27b0c1dd6e03561df6c1b2165cbbd4522788c3bae2fa3528a3e7f4c4ee609df6f3fb0fc77634b37ac53e83e634126b097377fd2c923b721da3978e40ce95
Homepage: https://taku910.github.io/mecab/
Description: Japanese morphological analysis system
Description-md5: e4eab18e2611f99ded7dca3f78c46fe9