Minimal installation from SVN

Installing apertium and a language pair

If you have limited bandwidth or disk space, you might consider to download and install just 3 things:

• lttoolbox
• apertium
• the language pair(s) your are interested in

Here are the commands if you would like the Esperanto-English pair:

svn checkout http://apertium.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/apertium/trunk/lttoolbox
svn checkout http://apertium.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/apertium/trunk/apertium
svn checkout http://apertium.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/apertium/trunk/apertium-eo-en

To see the available language pairs, go to https://apertium.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/apertium/trunk/.

Note: certain packages have to be installed before installing Apertium, see the system-specific HOWTO's under Installation for how to install the requirements.

Typically, Apertium is installed under the directory /usr/local. However, if you want it installed somewhere else or don't want to install it as root, do:

PREFIX=/path/to/where/I/want/Apertium
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PREFIX/lib/pkgconfig
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH

Then, in the lttoolbox and apertium directories, do:

./autogen.sh --prefix=$PREFIX
make
make install
ldconfig

Warning: If you didn't specify $PREFIX or don't know what this means then do:

./autogen.sh 
make
make install
ldconfig

(If you didn't specify a prefix, use sudo before the last two commands.)

Then, in the directory apertium-eo-en, do:

./autogen.sh --prefix=$PREFIX
make
make install

(Use sudo before the last command if you didn't specify a prefix.)

For language pairs that use CG (cg-proc)

Many language pairs now use CG (e.g. Macedonian→English, Breton→French, Nynorsk-Bokmål, …). For these, you need vislcg3 beforehand. See Vislcg3#Installing_VISL_CG3 for installation (use ./cmake.sh -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=<prefix> if you're installing to a prefix).

Note that you have to have ICU installed beforehand (available through most GNU/Linux package managers, in Arch Linux as icu, in Debian/Ubuntu as libicu-dev).