How To Install festival on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install festival on Debian 12.
What is festival
festival is:
Festival offers a full text to speech system with various APIs, as well an environment for development and research of speech synthesis techniques. It includes a Scheme-based command interpreter.
Besides research into speech synthesis, festival is useful as a stand-alone speech synthesis program. It is capable of producing clearly understandable speech from text.
There are three methods to install festival on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install festival Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install festival using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install festival
Install festival Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install festival using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install festival
Install festival 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 festival using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install festival
How To Uninstall festival on Debian 12
To uninstall only the festival package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove festival
Uninstall festival And Its Dependencies
To uninstall festival and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove festival
Remove festival Configurations and Data
To remove festival configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge festival
Remove festival configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove festival configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge festival
Dependencies
festival have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install festival package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.