How To Install ebook-speaker on Debian 10

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ebook-speaker on Debian 10.

What is ebook-speaker

ebook-speaker is:

This package provides a command-line e-reader that reads out electronic text using speech synthesis. It has a simple user interface appropriate for Braille terminals.

Currently the following formats are supported (some formats need additional packages as suggested by this package): AportisDoc ASCII mail text ASCII text Broadband eBooks (BBeB) Composite Document File (Microsoft Office Word) DAISY3 DTBook EPUB ebook data GIF image data GutenPalm zTXT GNU gettext message catalogue HTML document ISO-8859 text JPEG image data Microsoft Reader eBook Data Microsoft Windows HtmlHelp Data Microsoft Word 2007+ Mobipocket E-book MS Windows HtmlHelp Data Netpbm PPM data OpenDocument Text PDF document PeanutPress PalmOS PNG image data POSIX shell script text PostScript document Rich Text Format troff or preprocessor text (e.g. Linux man-pages) UTF-8 Unicode mail text UTF-8 Unicode text WordPerfect XML document text

There are three methods to install ebook-speaker 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 ebook-speaker Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install ebook-speaker

Install ebook-speaker Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ebook-speaker

Install ebook-speaker 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 ebook-speaker using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ebook-speaker

How To Uninstall ebook-speaker on Debian 10

To uninstall only the ebook-speaker package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove ebook-speaker

Uninstall ebook-speaker And Its Dependencies

To uninstall ebook-speaker and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ebook-speaker

Remove ebook-speaker Configurations and Data

To remove ebook-speaker configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ebook-speaker

Remove ebook-speaker configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ebook-speaker

Dependencies

ebook-speaker have the following dependencies:

• espeak
• libsox-fmt-mp3
• libsox-fmt-pulse
• sox
• unar
• wget
• libasound2
• libc6
• libmagic1
• libncursesw6
• libsox3
• libtinfo6
• libxml2

References

• ebook-speaker website
• ebook-speaker on packages.debian.org

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ebook-speaker package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.