Using Apertium spellers with LibreOffice-Voikko on Debian

How to install libreoffice-voikko on Ubuntu/Debian

Install Requirements

• Install requirements from apt

sudo apt-get install libreoffice python3 git make sed findutils zip unzip pkg-config gettext \
libxml++2.6-dev libarchive-dev zlib1g-dev unzip automake autoconf libtool flex bison g++ libreadline-dev

Here any version of Python 3 can be used.

Install Prerequisites

Setup for Projectjj repo users

If you are a Projectjj repo user then some of depedencies can be installed this way. Otherwise if things don't work for you, you can head over to next section.

• Install foma and hfst-ospell

sudo apt-get install foma hfst-ospell

If not using Projectjj then Compile

• Install foma

svn co http://foma.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/foma/
make; sudo make install

• Install hfst-ospell

./configure --enable-zhfst --enable-zip --enable-xml
make
sudo make install

Install Others

• Install libvoikko

wget http://www.puimula.org/voikko-sources/libvoikko/libvoikko-4.0.tar.gz
tar xvf libvoikko-4.0.tar.gz
cd libvoikko-4.0
./autogen.sh
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/voikko --with-dictionary-path=/usr/local/voikkodict --enable-hfst; make
sudo make install

• Install voikko-fi

wget http://www.puimula.org/voikko-sources/voikko-fi/voikko-fi-2.0.tar.gz
tar xvf voikko-fi-2.0.tar.gz
cd voikko-fi-2.0
PATH=/usr/local/voikko/bin:$PATH make vvfst
sudo make vvfst-install DESTDIR=/usr/local/voikkodict

Install Language Module

I'll be using Kazakh

• To install Kazakh language module, First get it

svn co https://svn.code.sf.net/p/apertium/svn/languages/apertium-kaz/
cd apertium-kaz
./autogen.sh --enable-ospell && make && sudo make install && sudo ldconfig

• Test the working of it

sudo cp kaz.zhfst /usr/local/voikkodict/5/kk.zhfst
echo "қазақша билмеймін" | tr ' ' '\n' | voikkospell -d kk -s

• The output is

C: қазақша
W: билмеймін
S: билеймін
S: білмеймін
S: билемеймін
S: бөлмеймін
S: билемейміз

Install LibreOffice-Voikko

Get it

git clone https://github.com/voikko/libreoffice-voikko

Add the language module to folder

sudo cp kk.zhfst /usr/local/voikkodict/5/mor-standard/
sudo unzip /usr/local/voikkodict/5/mor-standard/kk.zhfst

Change Directory and Compile

cd libreoffice-voikko/
make oxt

Adding the extension to LibreOffice

• Open LibreOffice
• Goto Tools>Extension Manager
• Click on the Add button
• Browse to libreoffice-voikko>build
• Open voikko.oxt

• Goto Tools>Options
• Open Language Settings>Writing Aids
• Click on Edit
• Change Language to Kazakh

Test your installation

• Goto Tools>Options>Language
• Choose Kazakh
• Click Ok
• Type қазақша билмеймін
• A red wavy line will appear on билмеймін,meaning it's misspelled

• To get correct suggestions, Right click on the mistaken word and suggestions will appear in context menu.
• If there is any other problem, You can contact Me or Apertium Members.