How To Install libvoikko on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libvoikko
on CentOS 7.
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. 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 CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libvoikko.
Install libvoikko on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install libvoikko
using yum
by running the following command:
Install libvoikko on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install libvoikko
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall libvoikko on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the libvoikko
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libvoikko
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.