How to Install and Uninstall kakasi Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 18,2024

1. Install "kakasi" package

Please follow the guidelines below to install kakasi on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall kakasi on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                kakasi
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the kakasi package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: kakasi
Priority: optional
Section: universe/text
Installed-Size: 220
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: "Natural Language Processing, Japanese"
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2.3.6-1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7), kakasi-dic
Filename: pool/universe/k/kakasi/kakasi_2.3.6-1_amd64.deb
Size: 61076
MD5sum: 4f90dd1033bcbb5f5d317db0ed8502a1
SHA1: 4201b62e7406263fdb130b0f5c1bd214354c51ba
SHA256: b7a488cfa358b5c1954369ffe4fc5eb741b952335e812cbae1412863bed29e13
Description-en: KAnji KAna Simple Inverter
KAKASI is the language processing filter to convert Kanji characters
to Hiragana, Katakana or Romaji(1) and may be helpful to read
Japanese documents.
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The name "KAKASI" is the abbreviation of "kanji kana simple inverter"
and the inverse of SKK "simple kana kanji converter" which is
developed by Masahiko Sato at Tohoku University. The most entries of
the kakasi dictionary is derived form the SKK dictionaries. If you
have some interests in the naming of "KAKASI", please consult to
Japanese-English dictionary. :-)
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(1) "Romaji" is alphabetical description of Japanese pronunciation.
Description-md5: f0f66559397980340862f598b74db91a
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://kakasi.namazu.org
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu