How To Install eflite on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install eflite on Debian 10.
What is eflite
eflite is:
EFlite is a speech server for Emacspeak and other screen readers that allows them to interface with Festival Lite, a free text-to-speech engine developed at the CMU Speech Center as an off-shoot of Festival.
Due to limitations inherited from its backend, EFlite does only provide support for the English language at the moment.
There are three methods to install eflite on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install eflite Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install eflite using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install eflite
Install eflite Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install eflite using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install eflite
Install eflite 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 eflite using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install eflite
How To Uninstall eflite on Debian 10
To uninstall only the eflite package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove eflite
Uninstall eflite And Its Dependencies
To uninstall eflite and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove eflite
Remove eflite Configurations and Data
To remove eflite configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge eflite
Remove eflite configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove eflite configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge eflite
Dependencies
eflite have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install eflite package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
