User:Jatinluthra14/Slacko

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

TODO: This seems a lot more complicated than the prerequisites sections for Debian/Fedora/Gentoo etc, can we simplify?

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 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

Install dependencies needed to build Apertium

slackpkg install make gcc linux-api-headers pcre-dev libxml2-dev libxslt-dev subversion pkg-config automake flex libtool 
 

• Upgrade Packages

slackpkg upgrade

Go on

Then you can move on to Minimal_installation_from_SVN.