# Install juman with Homebrew, apt, MacPorts

Japanese morphological analysis system. Version 7.01 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-19. Also installable with debian: sudo apt install juman.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:juman
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install juman
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install juman
```

  Evidence: MacPorts ports tree: textproc/juman/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

### Linux

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install juman
```

  Evidence: Debian stable package indexes: juman from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:juman
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 7.01
- **Source summary:** Japanese morphological analysis system
- **Homepage:** <https://nlp.ist.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/index.php?JUMAN>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/ku-nlp/juman>
- **Last updated:** 2026-06-19T12:31:21-07:00
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- juman (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 7.01
## Project history and usage

JUMAN is Kyoto University's user-extensible Japanese morphological analyzer. It tokenizes Japanese text and assigns morphological information such as part of speech, subpart, conjugation, reading, and dictionary meaning.

### Project history

Kyoto University's Language Media Processing Lab presents JUMAN as a user-extensible morphological analyzer for Japanese and links an English translation of the user guide. That guide identifies the JUMAN system version 0.5 authors as Yuji Matsumoto, Sadao Kurohashi, Yutaka Nyoki, Hitoshi Shinho, and Makoto Nagao.

The GitHub repository keeps the traditional C distribution shape: a JUMAN library, command sources, dictionary conversion tools, connectivity-rule tools, Perl module, dictionaries, and manual documents.

### Adoption history

JUMAN's adoption is strongest in Japanese NLP and Kyoto University tooling. It sits alongside KNP and Juman++ on the Kyoto lab NLP resources page, and its package availability in Homebrew, Debian, MacPorts, and Ubuntu reflects use by researchers and developers who need a stable Japanese morphological-analysis command.

### How it is used

Users run the `juman` command over Japanese text and receive morpheme records. The older guide explains the grammar and dictionary model, including user dictionaries, grammar dictionaries, morpheme dictionaries, connection rules, and the `JUMANPATH` search path for dictionaries.

JUMAN is commonly used as the morphological-analysis stage before higher-level Japanese NLP tools, especially in workflows connected to Kyoto University resources.

### Why package nerds care

JUMAN is a classic example of an academic NLP tool that package managers preserve because the command-line binary, dictionary format, and downstream expectations matter as much as the code.

Its significance is also historical: Juman++ and KNP are easier to understand as descendants or companions of the JUMAN/Jumandic ecosystem.

### Timeline

- Version 0.5: The English user's guide documented the JUMAN grammar and dictionary system.
- Version 7.01: Kyoto University's JUMAN page listed a source download for JUMAN Ver.7.01.
- 2010s: The ku-nlp GitHub repository made the source layout available through GitHub.

### Related projects

- JUMAN is closely related to Juman++, KNP, PyKNP, and the broader Kyoto University NLP resource family.
- Juman++ uses the Jumandic ecosystem and is presented by Kyoto University as the newer neural-network-based analyzer.

### Sources

- <https://github.com/ku-nlp/juman>
- <https://nlp.ist.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/EN/index.php?JUMAN>
- <https://nlp.ist.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/nl-resource/juman/juman-eng.html>


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Debian apt - juman - 7.0-3.9: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: juman from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Japanese morphological analysis system | https://nlp.ist.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/index.php?JUMAN
- Debian apt - juman-dic - 7.0-3.9: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: juman-dic from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Juman dictionary in text format | https://nlp.ist.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/index.php?JUMAN
- Debian apt - libjuman-dev - 7.0-3.9: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libjuman-dev from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Header files of JUMAN | https://nlp.ist.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/index.php?JUMAN
- Debian apt - libjuman-perl - 7.0-3.9: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libjuman-perl from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Perl binding of JUMAN | https://nlp.ist.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/index.php?JUMAN
- Debian apt - libjuman4t64 - 7.0-3.9: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libjuman4t64 from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Library of JUMAN | https://nlp.ist.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/index.php?JUMAN
- Ubuntu apt - juman - 7.0-3.6build1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: juman from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Japanese morphological analysis system | http://nlp.ist.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/index.php?JUMAN
- Ubuntu apt - juman-dic - 7.0-3.6build1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: juman-dic from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Juman dictionary in text format | http://nlp.ist.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/index.php?JUMAN
- Ubuntu apt - libjuman-dev - 7.0-3.6build1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libjuman-dev from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Header files of JUMAN | http://nlp.ist.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/index.php?JUMAN
- Ubuntu apt - libjuman-perl - 7.0-3.6build1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libjuman-perl from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Perl binding of JUMAN | http://nlp.ist.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/index.php?JUMAN
- Ubuntu apt - libjuman4t64 - 7.0-3.6build1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libjuman4t64 from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Library of JUMAN | http://nlp.ist.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/index.php?JUMAN
- MacPorts - juman: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: textproc/juman/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/juman.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/juman.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
