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

[jiterika]

Hi,

Thank you for making this package available, when i try to install i get the following error. Please let me know how i can resolve it

Collecting mecab-python3
Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/ac/48/295efe525df40cbc2173748eb869290e81a57e835bc41f6d3834fc5dad5f/mecab-python3-0.996.1.tar.gz
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
/bin/sh: mecab-config: command not found
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "/private/var/folders/rd/qqy1bpm93qj1qcmrj8624qz91pyzr5/T/pip-build-pqo_16ve/mecab-python3/setup.py", line 29, in
inc_dir = mecab_config("--inc-dir")
File "/private/var/folders/rd/qqy1bpm93qj1qcmrj8624qz91pyzr5/T/pip-build-pqo_16ve/mecab-python3/setup.py", line 27, in mecab_config
return os.popen("mecab-config " + arg).readlines()[0].split()
IndexError: list index out of range

Thank You

[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.