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For information on newest releases, see release notes on our Github pages.

Installing hfst-ospell to Mac OS X

Up-to-date, statically linked universal binaries for HFST command line tools are available via Apertium on their web pages. Extract either file hfst-ospell-latest.7z or hfst-ospell-latest.zip and go to folder hfst-ospell/bin/ where the binaries are located.

Installing hfst-ospell to Windows

Up-to-date, statically linked executables for HFST command line tools are available via Apertium on their web pages. Extract either file hfst-ospell-latest.7z or hfst-ospell-latest.zip and go to folder hfst-ospell/bin/ where the executables are located.

Installing hfst-ospell to Linux

The latest stable Debian packages for HFST library, command line tools as well as python interface are distributed as part of Apertium on their web pages. If your system doesn't support Debian, you probably need to compile from source.

Use the script install-nightly.sh to set up the repositories as sources so that apt-get knows about them:

wget https://apertium.projectjj.com/apt/install-nightly.sh
chmod ug+x install-nightly.sh
sudo ./install-nightly.sh

Then install hfst-ospell:

sudo apt-get install hfst-ospell

Check if the installation succeedeed:

hfst-ospell --help

Installing hfst-ospell from source

The easiest way to get source files of HFST libraries and tools is to download them as tarballs from the Github download page.

If you want to use our Github repository instead, you can clone it.

For information on installation, see hfst-ospell README.