User:Jatinluthra14

Installing Apertium on Slackware

This guide is for Slackware 14.1.

Preparation

Change user to root and Navigate to other directory:

su
sudo mkdir ~/Downloads
cd ~/Downloads

Enter password(if required).

Install slapt-get

• For i386

wget http://software.jaos.org/slackpacks/14.1/slapt-get/slapt-get-0.10.2r-i386-1.tgz

• For x86_64

wget http://software.jaos.org/slackpacks/14.1-x86_64/slapt-get/slapt-get-0.10.2r-x86_64-1.tgz

Assuming x86_64:

• Install slapt-get

installpkg slapt-get-0.10.2r-x86_64-1.tgz

• Upgrade the system:

slapt-get --upgrade

Install dependencies needed to build Apertium

• For i486:

slapt-get --install make-3.82-i486-3 gcc-4.7.1-i486-1 kernel-headers-3.2.29_smp-x86-1 libxml2-2.8.0-i486-1 libxslt-1.1.26-i486-2 \
subversion-1.7.6-i486-1 pkg-config-0.25-i486-1 automake-1.11.5-noarch-1 flex-2.5.35-i486-1 libtool-2.4.2-i486-1 pcre-8.33-i486-1 \
gawk-4.1.0-i486-2

• For x86_64:

slapt-get --install make-3.82-x86_64-4 gcc-4.8.2-x86_64-1 kernel-headers-3.10.17-x86-3 libxml2-2.9.1-x86_64-1 libxslt-1.1.28-x86_64-1 \
subversion-1.7.13-x86_64-1 pkg-config-0.25-x86_64-1 automake-1.11.5-noarch-1 flex-2.5.37-x86_64-1 libtool-2.4.2-x86_64-2 pcre-8.33-x86_64-1 \
gawk-4.1.0-x86_64-2

SVN Checkout

SVN or Apache Subversion is a software versioning and revision control system distributed as free software under the Apache License. There are many language pairs in the Apertium repository that can be installed. Firstly, check out the repositories:

svn checkout https://svn.code.sf.net/p/apertium/svn/trunk/lttoolbox
svn checkout https://svn.code.sf.net/p/apertium/svn/trunk/apertium
svn checkout https://svn.code.sf.net/p/apertium/svn/trunk/apertium-lex-tools
svn checkout https://svn.code.sf.net/p/apertium/svn/trunk/apertium-<language-pair>

Change <language-pair> to the language pair you want eg. en-es

Set up environment

This is required for proper installation of Apertium. This section can be added into .bashrc so that you do not need to retype these when you open up a new terminal.

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:${PKG_CONFIG_PATH}
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH

Compiling

• Change to each directory in order: lttoolbox, apertium, apertium-lex-tools, apertium-<language-pair> using cd

Then in each directory run:

./autogen.sh
make
make install
ldconfig

Finishing up and Testing

• Now, exit root shell:

exit

• To test:

echo <some text of source language> | apertium <language-pair>

Troubleshooting

Slackpkg

Installation of the packages can be done with slackpkg if slapt-get does not work.

wget http://www.slackpkg.org/stable/slackpkg-2.82.0-noarch-2.tgz
installpkg slackpkg-2.82.0-noarch-2.tgz

• Configure the mirrors by "pico /etc/slackpkg/mirrors" and commenting out the mirrors not required by adding # symbol at starting of line.

• Update the gpg by using "slackpkg update gpg"

• Upgrade using Slackpkg:

slackpkg update
slackpkg install-new
slackpkg upgrade-all