Homebrew Formulae: hunspell

hunspell

Install command:

brew install hunspell

Spell checker and morphological analyzer

https://hunspell.github.io

License: MPL-1.1 OR GPL-2.0-or-later OR LGPL-2.1-or-later

Development: Pull requests

Formula JSON API: /api/formula/hunspell.json

Formula code: hunspell.rb on GitHub

Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:

macOS on Apple Silicon	golden gate	✅
	tahoe	✅
	sequoia	✅
Linux	ARM64	✅
Linux	x86_64	✅

Current versions:

stable

✅

1.7.6

Depends on:

readline	8.3.6	Library for command-line editing
gettext	1.0	GNU internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) library

Depends on when building from source:

gettext	1.0	GNU internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) library
coreutils	9.12	GNU File, Shell, and Text utilities

Uses from macOS: ncurses

Conflicts with: freeling (because both install 'analyze' binary)

Binaries: affixcompress, analyze, chmorph, hunspell, hunzip, hzip, ispellaff2myspell, makealias, munch, unmunch, wordforms, wordlist2hunspell

Dictionary files (*.aff and *.dic) should be placed in
~/Library/Spelling/ or /Library/Spelling/. Homebrew itself
provides no dictionaries for Hunspell, but you can download
compatible dictionaries from other sources, such as
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/dictionaries/tree/ .

GitHub Packages downloads:

Last 30 days	116,427
Downloads	4,426,029
Analytics install events (30 days)	4,960
Downloads / install events (30 days)	23.5×

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Analytics:

	30 days	90 days	365 days
Installs	4,959	11,895	36,076
Installs (`--HEAD`)	1	6	7
Installs on Request	1,240	2,993	7,433
Installs on Request (`--HEAD`)	1	6	7
Build Errors	1