# Install libvoikko with Homebrew, apk, apt, dnf, Nix, pacman, zypper Linguistic software and Finnish dictionary. Version 4.3.3 via Homebrew; verified 2026-05-14. ## Install ```sh sudo av install brew:libvoikko ``` Additional install commands: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install libvoikko ``` Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata ### Linux - apk (92%): ```sh sudo apk add libvoikko ``` Evidence: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: libvoikko from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz - Debian apt (92%): ```sh sudo apt install libvoikko-dev ``` Evidence: Debian stable package indexes: libvoikko-dev from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz - dnf (92%): ```sh sudo dnf install libvoikko ``` Evidence: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: libvoikko from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst - Nix (92%): ```sh nix profile install nixpkgs#libvoikko ``` Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/li/libvoikko/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - pacman (92%): ```sh sudo pacman -S libvoikko ``` Evidence: Arch Linux sync databases: libvoikko from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz - zypper (92%): ```sh sudo zypper install libvoikko-devel ``` Evidence: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: libvoikko-devel from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst ## Package facts - **Package key:** brew:libvoikko - **Package manager:** Homebrew - **Package manager page:** - **Version:** 4.3.3 - **Source summary:** Linguistic software and Finnish dictionary - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Upstream docs:** - **License:** GPL-2.0-or-later - **Source archive:** - **Last updated:** 2026-05-14T16:54:50-04:00 - **Generated:** 2026-07-08T18:08:21+00:00 ## Executables - voikkogc (cli) - voikkohyphenate (cli) - voikkospell (cli) - voikkovfstc (cli) - voikkogc (alias) - voikkohyphenate (alias) - voikkospell (alias) - voikkovfstc (alias) ## Dependencies - hfstospell ## Build dependencies - foma - pkgconf ## Install behavior - Post-install hook: not defined - Bottle: available on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, sonoma, ventura, x86_64_linux ## Freshness - Page generated: 2026-07-08 - Package-manager version: 4.3.3 - Package-manager updated: 2026-05-14 - Local data: ok - Upstream repository: https://voikko.puimula.org/ - info: Release/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories. ## Project history and usage libvoikko is the core library in the Voikko stack, a Finnish-focused suite for morphological analysis, spell checking, grammar checking, hyphenation, and related linguistic data. It began as office-suite spell-checking infrastructure and grew into a reusable language-processing library used by desktop tools, search expansion, and machine-learning pipelines that process Finnish text. ### Project history The Voikko architecture page describes a layered project: libvoikko provides high-level algorithms, voikko-fi supplies Finnish morphology, libreoffice-voikko integrates with LibreOffice, and related plugins connect Voikko to spell-checking front ends. The project site says Voikko was originally developed as a spell checker for OpenOffice and LibreOffice. Voikko's own VFST transition document dates the first libvoikko 1.0 and Suomi-malaga 0.7.1 release to August 2006, supporting Finnish spell checking and hyphenation. Grammar checking arrived during 2008 with libvoikko 2.0, and dictionary-format changes in 2009 added support for morphological analysis. The project started in late 2005 as Hunspell-fi, but the maintainers moved toward Suomi-malaga and later finite-state technology because Finnish compounds, suffix chains, memory behavior, and grammar/hyphenation needs exceeded what plain Hunspell dictionaries handled comfortably. ### Adoption history Voikko became important in Finnish Linux and office-document workflows because it served OpenOffice and LibreOffice users with native-quality Finnish spell checking, hyphenation, and grammar checking. The architecture page also documents Enchant integration and tmispell-voikko, giving applications paths to use Voikko without speaking its native API directly. By 2019 libvoikko 4.3 added API support for listing analysis attribute values, explicitly calling out vectorizers for machine-learning applications. The project homepage describes later use in search expansion and improving machine-learning accuracy for Finnish texts. ### How it is used Homebrew users get command-line tools such as voikkospell, voikkohyphenate, voikkogc, and voikkovfstc. Developers use libvoikko through C, Java, Python, JavaScript, and other bindings to add Finnish spell checking, hyphenation, grammar checking, tokenization, and morphology to applications. ### Why package nerds care libvoikko is a classic language-package outlier: it is not merely a dictionary file but a native morphology engine with evolving dictionary formats, finite-state transducers, office-suite integration, and distro packaging concerns. Its history explains why Finnish language support often needs a specialized package rather than a generic Hunspell word list. ### Timeline - 2005: The work begins under the Hunspell-fi name. - 2006-08: libvoikko 1.0 and Suomi-malaga 0.7.1 are released for Finnish spell checking and hyphenation. - 2008: libvoikko 2.0 introduces grammar checking. - 2009: libvoikko 2.2 adds dictionary-format changes for morphological analysis. - 2012: The Finnish morphology rewrite in VFST format begins. - 2015-12-14: libvoikko 4.0 and voikko-fi 2.0 make Finnish VFST dictionary format stable and production-ready. - 2018-10-17: libvoikko 4.2 removes Malaga dictionary-format support. - 2019-10-22: libvoikko 4.3 adds APIs useful for machine-learning vectorizers. - 2025-05-23: libvoikko 4.3.3 updates the C++ standard to C++17 and includes build and memory-leak fixes. ### Related projects - Voikko is tied to voikko-fi, Suomi-malaga, libreoffice-voikko, Enchant, tmispell-voikko, hfst-ospell, Foma, VFST tooling, Joukahainen vocabulary maintenance, and office suites that need Finnish language services. ### Sources - - - - - ## Security Notes library-like package without higher-risk signals. - **Geiger risk:** green / low - library-like package without higher-risk signals ## Source Database Details - **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API - **Tap:** homebrew/core - **Full Name:** libvoikko - **Version Scheme:** 0 - **Revision:** 0 - **Bottle Stable Root URL:** - **Deprecated:** no - **Disabled:** no - **Keg Only:** no - **URL Keys:** stable ## Other Package-Manager Records - Debian apt - libvoikko-dev - 4.3.2-1+b2: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libvoikko-dev from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Development files for libvoikko | https://voikko.puimula.org/ - Debian apt - libvoikko1 - 4.3.2-1+b2: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libvoikko1 from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Library of free natural language processing tools | https://voikko.puimula.org/ - Debian apt - python3-libvoikko - 4.3.2-1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: python3-libvoikko from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Python bindings for libvoikko | https://voikko.puimula.org/ - Nix - libvoikko: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/li/libvoikko/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - Ubuntu apt - libvoikko-dev - 4.3.2-1build1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libvoikko-dev from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Development files for libvoikko | https://voikko.puimula.org/ - Ubuntu apt - libvoikko1 - 4.3.2-1build1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libvoikko1 from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Library of free natural language processing tools | https://voikko.puimula.org/ - Ubuntu apt - python3-libvoikko - 4.3.2-1build1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: python3-libvoikko from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Python bindings for libvoikko | https://voikko.puimula.org/ - apk - libvoikko - 4.3.2-r2: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: libvoikko from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Voikko spelling, hyphenation and grammar checker | https://voikko.puimula.org/ - apk - libvoikko-dev - 4.3.2-r2: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: libvoikko-dev from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Voikko spelling, hyphenation and grammar checker (development files) | https://voikko.puimula.org/ - apk - libvoikko-doc - 4.3.2-r2: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: libvoikko-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Voikko spelling, hyphenation and grammar checker (documentation) | https://voikko.puimula.org/ - dnf - libvoikko - 4.3.3-7.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: libvoikko from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | Voikko is a library for spellcheckers and hyphenators | https://voikko.puimula.org - dnf - libvoikko-devel - 4.3.3-7.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: libvoikko-devel from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | Development files for libvoikko | https://voikko.puimula.org - dnf - python3-libvoikko - 4.3.3-7.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: python3-libvoikko from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | Python interface to libvoikko | https://voikko.puimula.org - dnf - voikko-tools - 4.3.3-7.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: voikko-tools from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | Test tools for libvoikko | https://voikko.puimula.org - pacman - libvoikko - 4.3.3-3: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: libvoikko from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | A spelling and grammar checker, hyphenator and collection of related linguistic data for Finnish language | http://voikko.sourceforge.net - zypper - libvoikko-devel - 4.3.3-1.3: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: libvoikko-devel from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst | Library of free natural language processing tools | https://voikko.puimula.org ## Related links - 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