Getting started with the GiellaLT infrastructure on Linux

This page is a part of the overall Getting started documentation. It describes what you need to install on Linux to be ready to develop language tools for your language.

Note that this documentation is relevant when you want to participate in building and developing the grammatical tools yourself. If you only want to use the ready-made grammatical analysers, see the Linguistic analysis page.

Installing required auxiliary programs

Add the apertium nightly repository

wget https://apertium.projectjj.com/apt/install-nightly.sh -O - | sudo bash

Install development tools.

If you have Ubuntu (or another Debian-based system), do the following:

sudo apt-get install hfst apertium-dev cg3 divvun-gramcheck libreoffice-divvun \
python3-libdivvun autoconf automake libtool libsaxonb-java xsltproc \
poppler-utils wget subversion openjdk-11-jdk cmake \
python3-yaml icu-devtools python3-corpustools python3-gtgramtools \
apertium-all-dev libdivvun-dev libhfst-dev git git-lfs pipx

For Fedora systems, use dnf to install packages.

For omarchy and other Arch Linux system, we still do not have a procedure in place, but we plan to set up one. While waiting, you may use the docker and make an Ubuntu environment for GiellaLT there.

Install testing tools

For some additional python based tools and automatic testing, set up pipx like so:

pipx ensurepath
pipx install https://github.com/divvun/morph-test
pipx install https://github.com/divvun/GiellaLTGramTools
pipx install https://github.com/divvun/GiellaLTLexTools

Now go back to to Getting Started page for the next step towards building, using and developing the linguistic analysers.