Need to install the libenchant *-dev* package for PyEnchant to work on Ubuntu 22 and Ubuntu 18 about pyenchant HOT 6 CLOSED

No clear installation manual

I don't get it. Did you not see the URL you just copy/pasted? It contains instructions to install PyEnchant...

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yes i saw link. and it does't work for Ubuntu 22/18

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i found.
libenchant stored in the package libenchant-dev
so before pip needed
sudo apt-get install libenchant-dev

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Hum. PyEnchant should be able to find the C library without the -dev package

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Hum. PyEnchant should be able to find the C library without the -dev package

Many Linux distributions (Debian, Ubuntu, SUSE, RedHat, …) separate runtime files from development files: the later are required for actually running programs while the later are only required if you want to compile your own programs: They include header files and other control files like Makefiles or AutoConf fragments.
As PyEnchant is a wrapper around the low-level C-library libenchant it needs those headers and as such you must install the libenchant-dev package which contains them. How those packages are named heavily depends the one Linux distribution you use.
After the build stage the development package is no longer needed as the generated PyEnchant wrapper only needs the runtime package. You can then remove the development package until you want to build (a new version of) PyEnchant again.

Separating runtime files from development files not only shrinks the space required on your file system, but also slightly can improve security as you should not install unneeded software on your servers as each peace of software might contain bugs and simplifies the life of hackers as they have more things available to be abused.

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@pmhahn : I agree with your reasoning, but I think we should also patch the documentation if we don't intend to fix this.

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