English and Kazakh

Starting work on Apertium English to Kazakh

Installing what is needed

Operating System

Install a suitable GNU/Linux system such as Debian, Ubuntu, Mint...

Install build essentials, etc.

Open a terminal window and type

sudo apt-get install subversion build-essential g++ pkg-config gawk libxml2 \
libxml2-dev libxml2-utils xsltproc flex automake autoconf libtool libpcre3-dev  

enter your password and Wait till the packages are downloaded and installed.

Install OpenFST

This language pair uses the Helsinki Finite State Toolkit for Kazakh generation, so we need to install it.

wget http://www.openfst.org/twiki/pub/FST/FstDownload/openfst-1.3.1.tar.gz &&
tar -xzvf openfst-1.3.1.tar.gz &&
cd openfst-1.3.1/ &&
./configure &&
make &&
sudo make install