How To Install sound-icons on Debian 11

In this tutorial we learn how to install sound-icons on Debian 11. sound-icons is Sounds for speech enabled applications

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install sound-icons on Debian 11.

What is sound-icons

sound-icons is:

This package contains sound icons to be used for event signalization in speech enabled applications. They are especially useful when running Speech Dispatcher.

There are three methods to install sound-icons on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install sound-icons Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install sound-icons using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install sound-icons

Install sound-icons Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install sound-icons using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install sound-icons

Install sound-icons Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install sound-icons using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install sound-icons

How To Uninstall sound-icons on Debian 11

To uninstall only the sound-icons package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove sound-icons

Uninstall sound-icons And Its Dependencies

To uninstall sound-icons and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove sound-icons

Remove sound-icons Configurations and Data

To remove sound-icons configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge sound-icons

Remove sound-icons configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove sound-icons configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge sound-icons

Dependencies

sound-icons have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install sound-icons package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.