How To Install festival on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install festival on Kali Linux.
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 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 festival Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install festival using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install festivalInstall festival Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install festival using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install festivalInstall festival 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 festival using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install festivalHow To Uninstall festival on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the festival package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove festivalUninstall festival And Its Dependencies
To uninstall festival and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove festivalRemove festival Configurations and Data
To remove festival configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge festivalRemove 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 festivalDependencies
festival have the following dependencies:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install festival package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.