How To Install festival-freebsoft-utils on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install festival-freebsoft-utils on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is festival-freebsoft-utils
festival-freebsoft-utils is:
Miscellaneous Festival utilities, providing especially the following features: Generalized concept of input events, including ability to play sounds within the synthesized text and to map logical input events to other events; replacing given words in the synthesized text by events; spelling; capital letter signalization; punctuation reading modes; miscellaneous Festival Scheme functions.
Primary focus of festival-freebsoft-utils is on Festival cooperation with Speech Dispatcher, but they may be used together with other speech frontends or for other purposes as well.
There are three methods to install festival-freebsoft-utils on Ubuntu 18.04. 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-freebsoft-utils 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-freebsoft-utils using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install festival-freebsoft-utils
Install festival-freebsoft-utils Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install festival-freebsoft-utils using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install festival-freebsoft-utils
Install festival-freebsoft-utils 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install festival-freebsoft-utils using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install festival-freebsoft-utils
How To Uninstall festival-freebsoft-utils on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the festival-freebsoft-utils package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove festival-freebsoft-utils
Uninstall festival-freebsoft-utils And Its Dependencies
To uninstall festival-freebsoft-utils and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove festival-freebsoft-utils
Remove festival-freebsoft-utils Configurations and Data
To remove festival-freebsoft-utils configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge festival-freebsoft-utils
Remove festival-freebsoft-utils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove festival-freebsoft-utils configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge festival-freebsoft-utils
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install festival-freebsoft-utils package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
