How To Install emacspeak on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install emacspeak on Kali Linux.
What is emacspeak
emacspeak is:
Emacspeak is a speech output system that will allow someone who cannot see to work directly on a UNIX system.
Emacspeak is built on top of Emacs. Once Emacs is started with Emacspeak loaded, users get spoken feedback for all actions. As Emacs can do everything, they get speech feedback for everything they do.
This package recommends the speech server for the espeak (software) speech synthesizer, so it should work straight away. However it also contains the source for speech servers to support the DECtalk Express and DECtalk MultiVoice (hardware) speech synthesizers. For other synthesizers, look for speech server packages such as emacspeak-ss and eflite.
There are three methods to install emacspeak on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install emacspeak Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install emacspeak using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install emacspeakInstall emacspeak Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install emacspeak using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install emacspeakInstall emacspeak Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude updateAfter updating apt database, We can install emacspeak using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install emacspeakHow To Uninstall emacspeak on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the emacspeak package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove emacspeakUninstall emacspeak And Its Dependencies
To uninstall emacspeak and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove emacspeakRemove emacspeak Configurations and Data
To remove emacspeak configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge emacspeakRemove emacspeak configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove emacspeak configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge emacspeakDependencies
emacspeak have the following dependencies:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install emacspeak package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.