How To Install brailleutils on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install brailleutils
on Debian 11.
What is brailleutils
brailleutils is:
BrailleUtils provides a cross platform API for embossing and converting braille in PEF-format. It also supports conversion to and from commonly used “braille” text formats.
This package contains a command-line user interface.
There are three methods to install brailleutils
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 brailleutils Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install brailleutils
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install brailleutils
Install brailleutils Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install brailleutils
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install brailleutils
Install brailleutils 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 brailleutils
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install brailleutils
How To Uninstall brailleutils on Debian 11
To uninstall only the brailleutils
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove brailleutils
Uninstall brailleutils And Its Dependencies
To uninstall brailleutils
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove brailleutils
Remove brailleutils Configurations and Data
To remove brailleutils
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge brailleutils
Remove brailleutils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove brailleutils
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge brailleutils
Dependencies
brailleutils have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install brailleutils
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.