MeCab Chef Cookbook

Installs MeCab, its program language bindings, and its well-known dictionary.

Currently installing MeCab with Cef has some difficulty:

• MeCab binary is hosted at Google Drive.
• MeCab source hosted at GitHub is huge.

This recipe is implemented in a somewhat forcible manner, so there are some problems remains:

• It takes long running time because it checks out huge git repository of MeCab from github.
• Immutability

Because of above intractability, it is a good idea to use package manager like apt or yum alternative of this cookbook.

Platforms

The following platforms and versions are tested and supported using test-kitchen

• Ubuntu (14.04)
• Debian (8.0)
• CentOS (7.0)

Attributes

See source for default values.

Configurations of MeCab itself

• node['mecab']['version'] - Flavor of the version you would like to install. Following values are available:
  • 0.996
  • 0.995
  • 0.994
  • 0.993
  • 0.991
  • 0.99
  • HEAD - use the latest commit of MeCab's repository
• node['mecab']['git_repos'] - Repository to use.
• node['mecab']['prefix'] - Prefix of path to install built binaries.
• node['mecab']['utf8-only'] - Enable UTF-8 only mode if its value is true.
• node['mecab']['clone_timeout'] - Timeout for cloning repository from github.
• node['mecab']['charset'] - Charset of dictionary. Following values are available:
  • utf8
  • shift-jis
  • euc

Configurations of dictionaries

IPADic

• node['ipadic']['version'] - Flavor of the version of ipadic you would like to install.
  • 2.7.0-20070801
  • 2.7.0-20070610
  • 2.7.0-20060707
  • 2.7.0-20051110
  • HEAD - use the latest commit of MeCab's repository

JumanDic

• node['jumandic']['version'] - Flavor of the version of jumandic you would like to install.
  • 7.0-20130310
  • 5.1-20070304
  • HEAD - use the latest commit of MeCab's repository

UniDic

• node['unidic']['version'] - Flavor of the version iof unidic you would like to install.
  • 2.1.2
  • 2.1.1
  • HEAD - use the latest commit of MeCab's repository

NaistJDic

• node['naistjdic']['version'] - Flavor of the version iof naistjdic you would like to install.
  • 0.6.3b-20111013
  • 0.6.3-20100801
  • 0.6.2-20100208
  • 0.6.1-20090630
  • 0.6.0-20090616
  • 0.5.0-20090512
  • HEAD - use the latest commit of MeCab's repository

Configurations of program language bindings

Java binding

This recipe just build binding and copy it to node['mecab-java']['install_to']. You need to place the built resuilts to java.library.path to use it.

• node['mecab-java']['version'] - Flavor of the version of Java binding you would like to install. It requires the same value with MeCab itself.
• node['mecab-java']['install_to'] - A path to install MeCab.jar and libMeCab.so. Perhaps

Perl binding

• node['mecab-perl']['version'] - Flavor of the version of Perl binding you would like to install. It requires the same value with MeCab itself.
• node['mecab-perl']['perl_path'] - Path to perl executable.

Python binding

• node['mecab-python']['version'] - Flavor of the version of Python binding you would like to install. It requires the same value with MeCab itself.
• node['mecab-python']['prefix'] - A prefix of path to install to.

Perl binding

• node['mecab-perl']['version'] - Flavor of the version of Perl binding you would like to install. It requires the same value with MeCab itself.
• node['mecab-perl']['perl_path'] - Path to perl executable.

Ruby binding

• node['mecab-perl']['version'] - Flavor of the version of Ruby binding you would like to install. It requires the same value with MeCab itself.

Recipes

Installing MeCab Binary with its dictionary

• recipe[mecab] or recipe[mecab::default] - Install MeCab and IPA Dictionary. (default)
• recipe[mecab::ipadic] - Install MeCab and IPA Dictionary.
• recipe[mecab::jumandic] - Install MeCab and Juman Dictionary.
• recipe[mecab::unidic] - Install MeCab and Unidic Dictionary.
• recipe[mecab::naistjdic] - Install MeCab and NAIST-JDIC Dictionary.

Installing program language binding of MeCab

• recipe[mecab::mecab-java] - Install Java binding
• recipe[mecab::mecab-perl] - Install Perl binding
• recipe[mecab::mecab-python] - Install Python binding
• recipe[mecab::mecab-ruby] - Install Ruby binding

Usage

Just include mecab in your node's run_list:

• Install MeCab binaries, ipadic, and python binding

{
  "run_list": [
    "recipe[mecab]"
    "recipe[mecab:::mecab-python]
  ]
}

• Install MeCab binaries, unidic, and ruby binding

{
  "run_list": [
    "recipe[mecab::unidic]"
    "recipe[mecab:::mecab-ruby]
  ]
}

Misc

GitHub Repository

License and Author

• Author: kogecoo
• License: Apache License, Version 2.0 (see LICENSE)