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Voikko
Installation from source on Linux

These instructions are valid for the latest stable releases only.

You will need the following programs:

• Malaga (version 7.8 or newer)
• Suomi-Malaga, version 1.0 or later
• libvoikko
• for OpenOffice.org support, openoffice.org-voikko
• for ispell emulation, tmispell-voikko.

You will also need C and C++ compilers, Python and GNU make. Malaga may have additional library dependecies and openoffice.org-voikko will require the OpenOffice.org SDK for compilation.

Quick installation instructions

In the following Malaga and libvoikko will be installed to /usr/local/voikko and Suomi-Malaga (the Finnish "dictionaries") to /usr/local/voikkodict. You may however choose the installation prefixes as you wish.

1. Install Malaga. This means unpacking the source and running ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/voikko; make in the source directory, followed by make install as root.
2. Install Suomi-Malaga: Unpack the sources, run PATH=/usr/local/voikko/bin:$PATH make voikko in the source directory and then as root make voikko-install DESTDIR=/usr/local/voikkodict.
3. Install libvoikko. Unpack, go to the source directory and run ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/voikko --with-dictionary-path=/usr/local/voikkodict; make and then make install as root. You can now check your installation by running the command /usr/local/voikko/bin/voikkospell and typing in words, one per line. The program will prefix correct words with "C:" and incorrect words with "W:".
4. Edit the file /etc/ld.so.conf by adding a line containing the directory of libvoikko.so (in this example /usr/local/voikko/lib). Then run ldconfig as root. This step is required mainly for the OpenOffice.org UNO package to work, and it is not necessary if you install libvoikko using a deb/rpm package.
5. Build openoffice.org-voikko by following the instructions in the source package.
6. Install openoffice.org-voikko.
7. Install tmispell-voikko. Unpack, run ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/voikko; make and as root make install. You should also create directory /usr/local/voikko/etc and copy the provided tmispell.conf.example to that directory.
8. If you want to use tmispell as a replacement for ispell (for example in KDE), do the following:
   1. Install ispell.
   2. Rename the ispell binary /usr/bin/ispell to ispell.real. On Debian, you can do this by running (as root) dpkg-divert --divert /usr/bin/ispell.real --rename /usr/bin/ispell.
   3. Add a symbolic link /usr/bin/ispell -> /usr/local/voikko/bin/tmispell.
   4. Create two empty files: touch /usr/lib/ispell/suomi.hash /usr/lib/ispell/suomi.aff
   5. Go to the KDE Control Center and change the spellchecker settings to use ispell. Dictionary should be "suomi" and encoding "UTF-8".

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