How to Install and Uninstall unidic-mecab Package on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

Last updated: February 24,2025

1. Install "unidic-mecab" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install unidic-mecab on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)


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

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall unidic-mecab on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                unidic-mecab
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the unidic-mecab package on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

Package: unidic-mecab
Architecture: all
Version: 2.2.0-1
Priority: extra
Section: universe/misc
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Natural Language Processing, Japanese
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 1444023
Filename: pool/universe/u/unidic-mecab/unidic-mecab_2.2.0-1_all.deb
Size: 96936080
MD5sum: be74582f096a819849485465dedddc2b
SHA1: 6f422ee4b3012b367f35d9fc32f2d12343570e19
SHA256: a41e6f7cc58fbff49583b3d7bb80d4f5ad4b1133b7174d7d19009ce276c6a363
Homepage: http://unidic.ninjal.ac.jp
Description: Dictionary for Mecab (Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese)
Description-md5: e8cbe312efe8ad90db15c08e24f229f2