Apertium on openSUSE

0. Introduction

This note explains how to install the latest 3.0.4 svn version of Apertium on a stock openSUSE 10.2 install. If you choose the development pattern at or after install, you will get most of the packages required for development, and may not have to add those listed in section 1 below. The Apertium install is done into a directory in the user's homedir - in my case it was /home/kevin/downloads/linguistics, but it can be anything you choose. In this note, this choice will be referred to as [homedir].

1. Install required packages

Ensure that the following packages are installed using YaST, Smart, zypper or whatever:

• subversion
• libxml2 and libxml2-devel
• libxslt
• libtool
• pcre and pcre-devel
• flex
• automake
• autoconf
• gcc-c++

2. Download Apertium

Open a terminal, go to your [homedir] and checkout the latest version:

svn co http://apertium.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/apertium