# hfstospell mit Homebrew, apt, Nix, zypper installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für hfstospell in AI-Agent-Workflows.

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:hfstospell
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install hfstospell
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install hfst-ospell
```

  Evidenz: Debian stable package indexes: hfst-ospell from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#hfst-ospell
```

  Evidenz: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/hf/hfst-ospell/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

- zypper (92%):

```sh
sudo zypper install hfst-ospell
```

  Evidenz: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: hfst-ospell from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:hfstospell
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Paketmanager-Seite:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/hfstospell>
- **Version:** 0.5.4
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Helsinki Finite-State Technology ospell
- **Homepage:** <https://hfst.github.io/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/hfst/hfst-ospell>
- **Upstream-Dokumentation:** <https://github.com/hfst/hfst-ospell#readme>
- **Lizenz:** Apache-2.0
- **Quellarchiv:** <https://github.com/hfst/hfst-ospell/releases/download/v0.5.4/hfst-ospell-0.5.4.tar.bz2>
- **Generiert:** 2026-07-08T18:08:21+00:00

## Executables

- hfst-ospell (cli)
- hfst-ospell-office (cli)
- hfst-ospell-predict (cli)
- hfst-ospell (Alias)
- hfst-ospell-office (Alias)
- hfst-ospell-predict (Alias)

## Abhängigkeiten

- icu4c@78
- libarchive

## Build-Abhängigkeiten

- autoconf
- automake
- libtool
- pkgconf

## Installationsverhalten

- Post-install-Hook: nicht definiert
- Bottle: verfügbar auf arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-07-08
- Manager-Version: 0.5.4
- lokale Daten: OK
- Upstream-Repository: https://github.com/hfst/hfst-ospell
- Info: No package-manager update timestamp was available.
- Info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available.
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

HFST ospell is the spell-checking library and command-line tool associated with Helsinki Finite-State Technology. It applies HFST optimized-lookup transducers to spell checking, correction, and integration with desktop proofing stacks.

### Projektgeschichte

HFST, the Helsinki Finite-State Technology project, was built at the University of Helsinki as a toolkit for processing natural-language morphologies with finite-state automata and transducers. Its project page describes wide-coverage implementations for languages with varying morphological complexity, and the main HFST repository presents the toolkit as a bridge across finite-state libraries and toolkits for linguistic systems.

hfst-ospell is the spell-checking branch of that ecosystem. Its README describes a minimal optimized-lookup-format spell-checking library plus a demonstration command-line checker. The code exposes a C++ API around weighted transducers and a `hfst-ospell` utility that composes an error source and lexicon over standard input to print corrections.

The package kept a deliberately narrow scope: rather than replacing all of HFST, it supplies the spell-checking runtime and proofing-facing command tools. The GitHub release list records releases through 0.5.4 in February 2024, while the broader HFST site points users to binaries, libraries, morphological resources, and release notes.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

HFST-based spellers found use through language-technology projects that need finite-state spell checking for morphologically rich and lower-resource languages. The hfst-ospell README explicitly points to Voikko as the route into real applications, and then from Voikko into Enchant, LibreOffice, and Firefox.

The input package facts record hfst-ospell in Homebrew, Debian, Ubuntu, Nix, and zypper-family packaging. That cross-distro footprint is typical for language infrastructure that is not itself a consumer app but is needed by dictionaries, proofing tools, and build pipelines.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Developers can link against the library with `pkg-config --cflags hfstospell` and `pkg-config --libs hfstospell`, then construct spellers from HFST transducer files. Command-line users can run `hfst-ospell` with an error source and lexicon, and related packaged tools include `hfst-ospell-office` and `hfst-ospell-predict`.

The practical workflow is usually upstream of a user-facing editor: build or obtain ZHFST/HFST resources for a language, test correction behavior with the command-line tools, and integrate the runtime through Voikko or adjacent proofing infrastructure.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

For package nerds, hfst-ospell is a small but important split package: it packages the proofing runtime separately from the larger HFST compiler/toolkit stack. That makes it easier for distributions to depend on the runtime where a desktop spell checker or dictionary package needs it without forcing every user to install the full morphology development environment.

It is also a good example of finite-state NLP infrastructure crossing into ordinary desktop packaging. A command-line checker, a C++ library, pkg-config metadata, and desktop proofing adapters make the same linguistic transducers useful from both shell scripts and office-suite spell checking.

### Zeitleiste

- 1999-2022: The HFST project page copyright range reflects the long-running Helsinki finite-state toolkit web presence.
- 2000s-2010s: HFST developed as a finite-state toolkit for linguistic systems and morphological processing.
- 2010s: hfst-ospell provided an optimized-lookup spell-checking library and demonstration command-line checker.
- 2018: The `hfst-ospell-office` manual page in the repository carries a March 2018 date.
- 2024-02-20: GitHub release metadata records hfst-ospell 0.5.4.

### Related projects

- hfst-ospell is related to the main HFST toolkit, OpenFST, foma, SFST, Voikko, Enchant, LibreOffice proofing, Firefox proofing, GiellaLT/Divvun language resources, and newer HFST-compatible spell-checking tools such as divvunspell.

### Quellen

- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/hfstospell>
- <https://github.com/hfst/hfst>
- <https://github.com/hfst/hfst-ospell>
- <https://github.com/hfst/hfst-ospell/blob/master/hfst-ospell-office.1>
- <https://hfst.github.io/>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hfst/hfst-ospell/master/README.md>


## Sicherheitshinweise

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger-Risiko:** grün / niedrig
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Details aus der Quelldatenbank

- **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API
- **Tap:** homebrew/core
- **Full Name:** hfstospell
- **Version Scheme:** 0
- **Revision:** 5
- **Bottle Stable Root URL:** <https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core>
- **Deprecated:** no
- **Disabled:** no
- **Keg Only:** no
- **URL Keys:** stable

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Debian apt - hfst-ospell - 0.5.4-1+b3: installed executable or alias match | Debian stable package indexes: hfst-ospell from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Spell checker library and tool based on HFST | https://github.com/hfst/hfst-ospell
- Debian apt - hfst-ospell-dev - 0.5.4-1+b3: installed executable or alias match | Debian stable package indexes: hfst-ospell-dev from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | HFST spell checker development files | https://github.com/hfst/hfst-ospell
- Debian apt - libhfstospell11 - 0.5.4-1+b3: installed executable or alias match | Debian stable package indexes: libhfstospell11 from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | HFST spell checker runtime libraries | https://github.com/hfst/hfst-ospell
- Nix - hfst-ospell: installed executable or alias match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/hf/hfst-ospell/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - hfst-ospell - 0.5.4-1build3: installed executable or alias match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: hfst-ospell from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Spell checker library and tool based on HFST | https://github.com/hfst/hfst-ospell
- Ubuntu apt - hfst-ospell-dev - 0.5.4-1build3: installed executable or alias match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: hfst-ospell-dev from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | HFST spell checker development files | https://github.com/hfst/hfst-ospell
- Ubuntu apt - libhfstospell11 - 0.5.4-1build3: installed executable or alias match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libhfstospell11 from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | HFST spell checker runtime libraries | https://github.com/hfst/hfst-ospell
- zypper - hfst-ospell - 0.5.4-1.8: installed executable or alias match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: hfst-ospell from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst | Spell checker library and tool based on HFST | https://hfst.github.io/
- zypper - hfst-ospell-devel - 0.5.4-1.8: installed executable or alias match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: hfst-ospell-devel from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst | HFST spell checker development files | https://hfst.github.io/
- zypper - libhfstospell11 - 0.5.4-1.8: installed executable or alias match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: libhfstospell11 from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst | HFST spell checker runtime libraries | https://hfst.github.io/
- zypper - libhfstospell11-32bit - 0.5.4-1.8: installed executable or alias match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: libhfstospell11-32bit from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst | HFST spell checker runtime libraries | https://hfst.github.io/


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## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/hfstospell.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/hfstospell.yml)


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