How To Install stardict-plugin-festival on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install stardict-plugin-festival on Debian 12.
What is stardict-plugin-festival
stardict-plugin-festival is:
StarDict is a cross-platform international dictionary lookup program.
Main features:
- Glob-style pattern matching search
- Fuzzy search
- Working from system tray
- Scanning mouse selection and showing pop-up windows with translation of selected words
- Pronouncing of the translated words
- Plugins support
- ..and more
This package contains Festival TTS plugin for StarDict which can pronounce words.
There are three methods to install stardict-plugin-festival on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install stardict-plugin-festival Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install stardict-plugin-festival using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install stardict-plugin-festival
Install stardict-plugin-festival Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install stardict-plugin-festival using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install stardict-plugin-festival
Install stardict-plugin-festival 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 stardict-plugin-festival using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install stardict-plugin-festival
How To Uninstall stardict-plugin-festival on Debian 12
To uninstall only the stardict-plugin-festival package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove stardict-plugin-festival
Uninstall stardict-plugin-festival And Its Dependencies
To uninstall stardict-plugin-festival and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove stardict-plugin-festival
Remove stardict-plugin-festival Configurations and Data
To remove stardict-plugin-festival configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge stardict-plugin-festival
Remove stardict-plugin-festival configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove stardict-plugin-festival configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge stardict-plugin-festival
Dependencies
stardict-plugin-festival have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install stardict-plugin-festival package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
