Contents
Installed Programs: enchant-2 and enchant-lsmod-2
Installed Libraries: libenchant-2.so
Installed Directories: /usr/include/enchant-2, /usr/lib/enchant-2,
/usr/share/enchant, and /usr/share/doc/enchant-2.6.2
enchant-2.6.2
Introduction to enchant
The enchant package provides a generic interface into various existing spell checking libraries.
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Note
Development versions of BLFS may not build or run some packages properly if LFS or dependencies have been updated since the most recent stable versions of the books.
Package Information
Download (HTTP): https://github.com/AbiWord/enchant/releases/download/v2.6.2/enchant-2.6.2.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: f2fc82c9b47b9603113405fbbd0d318a
Download size: 996 KB
Estimated disk space required: 7.1 MB (add 64 MB for tests)
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU (add 0.7 SBU for tests)
enchant Dependencies
Required
Recommended
Optional
dbus-glib-0.112, Doxygen-1.9.8, Hspell, Hunspell, Nuspell, Voikko, and unittest-cpp (required for tests)
Installation of enchant
Install enchant by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr \
--disable-static \
--docdir /usr/share/doc/enchant-2.6.2 &&
make
To run tests, unittest-cpp must be installed and the
--enable-relocatable option passed to configure above.
If these conditions are present, the tests may be run with make
check.
Now, as the root user:
make install
Command Explanations
--disable-static: This switch prevents
installation of static versions of the libraries.
Configuring enchant
Configuration Information
You can test your installation and configuration by creating a test file and running the following commands (you can replace the en_GB dictionary by any other downloaded when installing Aspell-0.60.8):
cat > /tmp/test-enchant.txt << "EOF"
Tel me more abot linux
Ther ar so many commads
EOF
enchant-2 -d en_GB -l /tmp/test-enchant.txt &&
enchant-2 -d en_GB -a /tmp/test-enchant.txtYou will see a list of the misspelled words followed by a list of alternatives for them.
See more details in the enchant manual page.