[SRILM User List] Installing SRILM 1.7.0 on ubuntu 12.04

[Andreas Stolcke]

On 5/7/2013 4:32 PM, Ramy Baly wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My name is Ramy, I'm a PhD student at the American University of 
> Beirut, working on Arabic Sentiment analysis.
>
> I tried to install the SRILM (both versions 1.6.0 and 1.7.0) on Ubuntu 
> 12.04.
>
> I installed all prerequisite packages mentioned in the website (in 
> addition to tcsh), and it doesn't work...
>
> I also tried to follow the following common guides I found in 
> different forums:
>
>
> 1) Install tcsh if not already installed
tcsh is no longer required in recent versions of SRILM.
>
> 2) Install all the TCL developer libraries: tcl8.4-dev, tcl-dev, 
> tcl-lib, tclx8.4, tclx8.4-dev.  This step may not be necessary, let me 
> know what works for you.
>
> 3) Uncomment the “SRILM =” line in the top level Makefile and replace 
> the existing path with the absolute path of the SRILM top-level 
> directory on your system (where the Makefile resides)
>
> 4) Start the tcsh shell
>
> 5) Type “make NO_TCL=X MACHINE_TYPE=i686-gcc4 World > & make.log.txt” 
> to begin the build and capture stderr and stdout in a file
If you did the above then you can share the make.log.txt file. Otherwise 
we have no clue what might be wrong.

Andreas