mecab command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

mecab: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mecab: command not found

Solutions to mecab: command not found

How To Fix mecab: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu mecab is provided by mecab package.

mecab is:

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).

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install mecab

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install mecab.

sudo apt -y install mecab

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install mecab

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix mecab command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.