mecab-config: command not found error while installing on mac about japanesetokenizers

[Kensuke-Mitsuzawa]

Hi. Thanks for your report.
As high probability, you might be failed to make install mecab, which is tokenizer library written in C++.

This line of error message shows that.

inc_dir = mecab_config("--inc-dir")

That's means, you couldn't call mecab-config command with --inc-dir option.

Please make sure, you could call mecab command and mecab-config command.

If it's not working, you are supposed to make install them first.

[jiterika]

Hi,
Thank you for the reply.

"Please make sure, you could call mecab command and mecab-config command.

If it's not working, you are supposed to make install them first."

how can i install, when i tried to install by downloading the package and running
python setup.py install as mentioned in the installation instructions, i got the above error message.

Thank You

[Kensuke-Mitsuzawa]

Hi. Mecab is completely different from Python world. So, you couldn't make install with python package.

Please refer here to know a procedure for installation.
https://github.com/Kensuke-Mitsuzawa/JapaneseTokenizers/blob/master/README.md#mecab

I guess you could make it all with brew install mecab if you're familiar with brew which is a package manager for Mac. However, I'm not sure because I don't have any Mac laptop now.

[jiterika]

Hi,

Thank you. It worked.