How To Install brltty-espeak on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install brltty-espeak
on Debian 11.
What is brltty-espeak
brltty-espeak is:
BRLTTY is a daemon which provides access to the Linux console (text mode) for a blind person using a braille display. It drives the braille display and provides complete screen review functionality.
This package contains an optional speech driver for the espeak speech synthesis engine.
There are three methods to install brltty-espeak
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 brltty-espeak Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install brltty-espeak
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install brltty-espeak
Install brltty-espeak Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install brltty-espeak
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install brltty-espeak
Install brltty-espeak 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 brltty-espeak
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install brltty-espeak
How To Uninstall brltty-espeak on Debian 11
To uninstall only the brltty-espeak
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove brltty-espeak
Uninstall brltty-espeak And Its Dependencies
To uninstall brltty-espeak
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove brltty-espeak
Remove brltty-espeak Configurations and Data
To remove brltty-espeak
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge brltty-espeak
Remove brltty-espeak configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove brltty-espeak
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge brltty-espeak
Dependencies
brltty-espeak have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install brltty-espeak
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.