User:Jatinluthra14/Slacko

This Tutorial is prepared by Jatin Luthra in Google Code-In.

Installing Apertium on Slackware

This guide is for Slackware 14.1.

Preparation

Change user to root

su

Enter password(if required).

Install Slackpkg

Open Terminal

ppm

In Puppy Package manager, Type slackpkg and AutoInstall

Configure Slackpkg

• Configure the mirrors by

nano /etc/slackpkg/mirrors
and decommenting out the mirrors which are required by removing # symbol at starting of line.

• Update the gpg by using

slackpkg update gpg

• Upgrade using Slackpkg:

slackpkg update

Install dependencies needed to build Apertium

slackpkg install make gcc pcre-dev libxml2-dev libxslt-dev subversion \
pkg-config automake flex libtool apr apr-util neon autoconf bison gcc-g++ readline
 

• Upgrade Packages

slackpkg upgrade-all

Troubleshooting

If any package isn't working for you, You can use ppm for it

• Type

ppm

• Search for package
• Click on Do It

Go on

Then you can move on to Minimal_installation_from_SVN.