How To Install espeak-ng-espeak on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install espeak-ng-espeak
on Debian 9.
What is espeak-ng-espeak
espeak-ng-espeak is:
eSpeak NG is a software speech synthesizer for English, and some other languages.
This package contains compatibility links that makes it a drop-in replacement for the espeak package. Installing this package thus allows one to make applications calling the /usr/bin/espeak program use eSpeak NG without any modification or rebuild.
There are three methods to install espeak-ng-espeak
on Debian 9. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install espeak-ng-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 espeak-ng-espeak
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install espeak-ng-espeak
Install espeak-ng-espeak Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install espeak-ng-espeak
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install espeak-ng-espeak
Install espeak-ng-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 espeak-ng-espeak
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install espeak-ng-espeak
How To Uninstall espeak-ng-espeak on Debian 9
To uninstall only the espeak-ng-espeak
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove espeak-ng-espeak
Uninstall espeak-ng-espeak And Its Dependencies
To uninstall espeak-ng-espeak
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove espeak-ng-espeak
Remove espeak-ng-espeak Configurations and Data
To remove espeak-ng-espeak
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge espeak-ng-espeak
Remove espeak-ng-espeak configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove espeak-ng-espeak
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge espeak-ng-espeak
Dependencies
espeak-ng-espeak have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install espeak-ng-espeak
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.