You can also use Docker to run fastText on your machine and not worry about building it. This can be done to maintain version control between specific versions and thus gives us predictability and consistency. You can get information on how to install Docker from the following link: https://docs.docker.com/install/#cloud.
After installing, start the Docker service before running the following commands:
start the docker service.
$ systemctl start docker
# run the below commands to start the fasttext container.
$ docker pull xebxeb/fasttext-docker
You should now be able to run fastText:
$ mkdir -p /tmp/data && mkdir -p /tmp/result
$ docker run --rm -v /tmp/data:/data -v /tmp/result:/result \
-it xebxeb/fasttext-docker ./classification-example.sh
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