How To Install libvoikko on Fedora 34

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libvoikko on Fedora 34.

What is libvoikko

This is libvoikko, library for spellcheckers and hyphenators using Malaga natural language grammar development tool. The library is written in C. Currently only Finnish is supported, but the API of the library has been designed to allow adding support for other languages later. Note however that Malaga is rather low level tool that requires implementing the whole morphology of a language as a left associative grammar. Therefore languages that have simple or even moderately complex morphologies and do not require morphological analysis in their hyphenators should be implemented using other tools such as Hunspell. libvoikko 4.3.1 1.fc34 x86_64 141 k libvoikko-4.3.1-1.fc34.src.rpm updates Voikko is a library for spellcheckers and hyphenators https GPLv2+ This is libvoikko, library for spellcheckers and hyphenators using Malaga natural language grammar development tool. The library is written in C. Currently only Finnish is supported, but the API of the library has been designed to allow adding support for other languages later. Note however that Malaga is rather low level tool that requires implementing the whole morphology of a language as a left associative grammar. Therefore languages that have simple or even moderately complex morphologies and do not require morphological analysis in their hyphenators should be implemented using other tools such as Hunspell.

We can use yum or dnf to install libvoikko on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libvoikko.

Install libvoikko on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install libvoikko using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libvoikko

Install libvoikko on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install libvoikko using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libvoikko

How To Uninstall libvoikko on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the libvoikko package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove libvoikko

libvoikko Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2b
/usr/lib/.build-id/2b/a1b7e135f4fe569643813c36f8fa4a06b23d6f
/usr/lib/libvoikko.so.1
/usr/lib/libvoikko.so.1.16.1
/usr/lib/voikko
/usr/share/doc/libvoikko
/usr/share/doc/libvoikko/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libvoikko/README
/usr/share/licenses/libvoikko
/usr/share/licenses/libvoikko/COPYING
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/74
/usr/lib/.build-id/74/2f13a25a5cc49f72832f7883ab92f380c61b49
/usr/lib/libvoikko.so.1
/usr/lib/libvoikko.so.1.16.0
/usr/lib/voikko
/usr/share/doc/libvoikko
/usr/share/doc/libvoikko/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libvoikko/README
/usr/share/licenses/libvoikko
/usr/share/licenses/libvoikko/COPYING
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/7d
/usr/lib/.build-id/7d/f91fcf82553c2d0e282e2038d3c3b86ad34476
/usr/lib/voikko
/usr/lib64/libvoikko.so.1
/usr/lib64/libvoikko.so.1.16.0
/usr/share/doc/libvoikko
/usr/share/doc/libvoikko/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libvoikko/README
/usr/share/licenses/libvoikko
/usr/share/licenses/libvoikko/COPYING
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/99
/usr/lib/.build-id/99/8a42b0518b6756dc272324cade526688a4e835
/usr/lib/voikko
/usr/lib64/libvoikko.so.1
/usr/lib64/libvoikko.so.1.16.1
/usr/share/doc/libvoikko
/usr/share/doc/libvoikko/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libvoikko/README
/usr/share/licenses/libvoikko
/usr/share/licenses/libvoikko/COPYING

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libvoikko on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.