How To Install festival-mr on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install festival-mr on Debian 9.
What is festival-mr
festival-mr is:
This package provides the modules required to synthesize speech in Marathi (mr) language using the Festival text-to-speech synthesizer. Given text represented in Unicode (UTF-8 encoding), it uses the festival synthesizer to generate speech in Marathi.
There are three methods to install festival-mr 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 festival-mr 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-mr using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install festival-mr
Install festival-mr Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install festival-mr using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install festival-mr
Install festival-mr 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-mr using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install festival-mr
How To Uninstall festival-mr on Debian 9
To uninstall only the festival-mr package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove festival-mr
Uninstall festival-mr And Its Dependencies
To uninstall festival-mr and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove festival-mr
Remove festival-mr Configurations and Data
To remove festival-mr configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge festival-mr
Remove festival-mr configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove festival-mr configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge festival-mr
Dependencies
festival-mr have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install festival-mr package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.