# Installer enchant avec Homebrew, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, zypper, apt

Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de enchant pour les workflows d'agents IA.

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:enchant
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install enchant
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install enchant
```

  Preuve: MacPorts ports tree: textproc/enchant/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

### Linux

- dnf (92%):

```sh
sudo dnf install enchant
```

  Preuve: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: enchant from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#enchant
```

  Preuve: nixpkgs package indexes: enchant from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/master/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix

- pacman (92%):

```sh
sudo pacman -S enchant
```

  Preuve: Arch Linux sync databases: enchant from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz

- zypper (92%):

```sh
sudo zypper install enchant-2-backend-aspell
```

  Preuve: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: enchant-2-backend-aspell from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install enchant-2
```

  Preuve: Debian stable package indexes: enchant-2 from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:enchant
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 2.8.19
- **Résumé source:** Spellchecker wrapping library
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://rrthomas.github.io/enchant/>
- **Dépôt:** <https://github.com/rrthomas/enchant>
- **Dernière mise à jour:** 2026-07-07T12:53:27Z
- **Généré:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## exécutables

- enchant-2 (alias)
- enchant-lsmod-2 (alias)

## Comportement d'installation

- Bouteille: non disponible

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-08-03
- version du gestionnaire: 2.8.19
## Historique du projet et usages

Enchant is a provider-neutral spell-checking library and command-line program. Its purpose is to let applications use Hunspell, Nuspell, Aspell, Hspell, Voikko, AppleSpell, Zemberek, and other providers through one consistent interface.

### Historique du projet

Enchant began in the AbiWord ecosystem; the project homepage credits Dom Lachowicz and says older versions remain available from the AbiSource website. The NEWS file shows a long 1.x history, including 1.6.0 in 2010, followed by 2.0.0 in 2017.

In 2025, release 2.8.3 marked Enchant's move from the defunct AbiWord project to direct maintenance by Reuben Thomas. The same release also rewrote the two command-line utilities in Vala and noted that Enchant's core had moved to Vala while providers remained a mix of C, C++, and Objective-C++.

### Historique d'adoption

Enchant became valuable because desktop and editor software need spell checking without hard-coding one spelling engine. The project homepage lists GNU Emacs as of version 27.1, AbiWord, LyX, and Gtk/GNOME applications through gspell and GtkSpell as users.

The backend list also explains why distributions package it carefully: language-specific and platform-specific spell checkers can coexist behind one API, so a package manager can wire applications to available dictionaries and providers without each application growing its own compatibility layer.

### Modes d'utilisation

Application developers link against libenchant through C or C++ bindings, while users and scripts can call `enchant-2` for Ispell-compatible non-interactive spell checking. `enchant-lsmod-2` reports available providers and dictionaries.

Configuration is documented through the `enchant(5)` man page, which controls provider selection by language and personal word lists. That makes Enchant both a developer library and a small user-facing CLI package.

### Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

Enchant is package-nerd glue: it does not win by having the best dictionary itself, but by keeping spell-checking consumers decoupled from provider churn. It is the kind of library that makes desktop text stacks less brittle across Linux, BSD, macOS, and language-specific dictionary packages.

Its current NEWS also shows the maintenance burden typical of ecosystem glue packages: recent releases fix provider crashes, command-line compatibility, personal word list behavior, relocatability, and editor-facing quirks rather than flashy features.

### Chronologie

- Early releases: Enchant originated under the AbiWord/AbiSource umbrella.
- 2010: Enchant 1.6.0 released.
- 2017: Enchant 2.0.0 released.
- 2025: Enchant 2.8.3 moved maintenance from defunct AbiWord affiliation to Reuben Thomas.
- 2026: Enchant 2.8.x releases continued active maintenance for CLI and provider behavior.

### Related projects

- Hunspell, Nuspell, GNU Aspell, Hspell, Voikko, AppleSpell, and Zemberek are documented spell-checking backends.
- AbiWord, GNU Emacs, LyX, gspell, and GtkSpell are listed users or integration paths.
- Python, Rust, Go, Common Lisp, C, C++, and Vala bindings or language connections are documented on the project homepage.

### Sources

- <https://rrthomas.github.io/enchant>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rrthomas/enchant/master/README.md>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rrthomas/enchant/master/NEWS>
- <https://github.com/rrthomas/enchant>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/rrthomas/enchant>


## Notes de sécurité

library-like package without higher-risk signals.

- **Risque Geiger:** vert / faible
- library-like package without higher-risk signals

## Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

- Nix - enchant: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: enchant from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/master/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
- dnf - enchant - 1.6.0-42.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: enchant from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | An Enchanting Spell Checking Library | http://www.abisource.com/
- dnf - enchant-devel - 1.6.0-42.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: enchant-devel from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Support files necessary to compile applications with libenchant. | http://www.abisource.com/
- dnf - enchant-voikko - 1.6.0-42.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: enchant-voikko from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Integration with voikko for libenchant | http://www.abisource.com/
- pacman - enchant - 2.8.15-2: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: enchant from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | A wrapper library for generic spell checking | https://rrthomas.github.io/enchant/
- zypper - enchant-2-backend-aspell - 2.8.15-1.4: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: enchant-2-backend-aspell from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Aspell backend for the Enchant spell checking library | https://rrthomas.github.io/enchant/
- zypper - enchant-2-backend-hunspell - 2.8.15-1.4: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: enchant-2-backend-hunspell from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Hunspell backend for the Enchant spell checking library | https://rrthomas.github.io/enchant/
- zypper - enchant-2-backend-nuspell - 2.8.15-1.4: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: enchant-2-backend-nuspell from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Nuspell backend for the Enchant spell checking library | https://rrthomas.github.io/enchant/
- zypper - enchant-2-backend-voikko - 2.8.15-1.4: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: enchant-2-backend-voikko from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Voikko backend for the Enchant spell checking library | https://rrthomas.github.io/enchant/
- zypper - enchant-2-backend-voikko-32bit - 2.8.15-1.4: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: enchant-2-backend-voikko-32bit from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Voikko backend for the Enchant spell checking library | https://rrthomas.github.io/enchant/
- zypper - enchant-data - 2.8.15-1.4: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: enchant-data from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Data files for libenchant | https://rrthomas.github.io/enchant/
- zypper - enchant-devel - 2.8.15-1.4: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: enchant-devel from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Development files for the Enchant spell checking library | https://rrthomas.github.io/enchant/
- zypper - enchant-tools - 2.8.15-1.4: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: enchant-tools from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Command line tools for the Enchant spell checking library | https://rrthomas.github.io/enchant/
- zypper - libenchant-2-2 - 2.8.15-1.4: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: libenchant-2-2 from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Generic Spell Checking Library | https://rrthomas.github.io/enchant/
- zypper - libenchant-2-2-32bit - 2.8.15-1.4: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: libenchant-2-2-32bit from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Generic Spell Checking Library | https://rrthomas.github.io/enchant/
- zypper - libenchant1 - 1.6.1-8.8: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: libenchant1 from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Generic Spell Checking Library | https://abiword.github.io/enchant/


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/enchant.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/enchant.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph