This is a fork of the MeCab python bindings version 0.993. The original copy can be found at https://code.google.com/p/mecab/downloads/list.
% python setup.py build
% su
# python setup.py install
You can change the install directory with the --prefix option. For example:
% python setup.py install --prefix=/tmp/pybuild/foobar
see 'test.py' as a sample program.