Finnish spell-checker?

[sppo71]

How do I get to run LibreOffice in Finnish spell-checking program?

http://voikko.sourceforge.net/

[svantoviit]

Will be a hard way…

There are the ebuilds for the needed stuff in the experimental Finnish overlay, but they seem unmaintained for a long time, a really long time.

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$ layman -i finnish

 * finnish
 * ~~~~~~~
 * Source  : svn://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/finnish/trunk
 * Contact : flammie@gentoo.org
 * Type    : Subversion; Priority: 50
 * Quality : experimental
 *
 * Description:
 *   Finnish overlay for spell checking etc. etc.
 *
 * Link:
 *   http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/finnish
 *
 * Feed:
 *   http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/finnish/timeline
 *


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$ eix -c --in-overlay finnish
[N] app-accessibility/suopuhe [1] (--): Finnish diphones and text to speech script for festival
[N] app-admin/eselect-ispell [1] ((~)0.1): Manages the /usr/bin/ispell symlink
[N] app-office/openoffice-sdk [1] (--): OO.o SDK and other binaries missing from Gentoo’s OO.o
[N] app-office/openoffice-voikko [1] (--): Voikko—Free Finnish spell checking and hyphenation for OpenOffice
[N] app-text/hfst-ospell [1] (--): Tiny spell-checker library and tools based on FST technology
[N] app-text/ispell [1] ((~)3.3.02-r99): fast screen-oriented spelling checker
[N] app-text/sukija [1] (--): Finnish text indexing tool
[N] app-text/tmispell [1] ((~)0.7): An interface between ispell and Voikko Finnish spellcheckers.
[N] app-text/voikko [1] ((~)3.2): Free Finnish spellchecking and huphenation library
[N] sci-misc/malaga [1] ((~)7.9): Linguistic morphological programming language and toolset
[N] sci-misc/suomi-malaga [1] ((~)1.9): Finnish wordform patterns for malaga
[N] www-plugins/mozvoikko [1] (--): Mozilla plugin for voikko spellchecker
[1] "finnish" layman/finnish

Found 12 matches.


Your possibilities:

1. Compile the applications on your own from source as described on the project's web-page. (Note: That is not a supported way of installing software on Sabayon.)
   or
2. Dive into the ebuilds and make them work.
   or
3. Try your luck with the Entropy Team and request Voikko to be added into Entropy. That is not a bad idea, I think, since there is no other Finnish spell-checker for LibreOffice and Mozilla I am aware off.

Good luck!