User:Jatinluthra14

Installing Apertium on Slackware

This Guide is for Latest Slackware 14.1

Change user to root:

su

Enter password(if required).

Install Slapt-get and Slackpkg

• 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:

• Open Terminal. Navigate to Downloads Directory.

cd ~/Downloads

• Install the Package

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

• Slackpkg:

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 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

• Upgrade using Slapt-get:

slapt-get update

Install dependencies, needed to build Apertium

• Install can be done with Slackpkg as alternative if slapt-get not works

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

SVN Checkout

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-<languare-pair>

Change <languare-pair> as your requirement for eg.en-es

Set up enviroment

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-<languare-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 "Hello World" | apertium <languare-pair>