How To Install flite1-dev on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install flite1-dev on Debian 12.
What is flite1-dev
flite1-dev is:
Flite is a small fast run-time speech synthesis engine. It is the latest addition to the suite of free software synthesis tools including University of Edinburgh’s Festival Speech Synthesis System and Carnegie Mellon University’s FestVox project, tools, scripts and documentation for building synthetic voices. However, flite itself does not require either of these systems to run.
It currently only supports the English and Indic languages.
This extra package provides the flite static libraries and header files.
There are three methods to install flite1-dev 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 flite1-dev Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install flite1-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install flite1-dev
Install flite1-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install flite1-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install flite1-dev
Install flite1-dev 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 flite1-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install flite1-dev
How To Uninstall flite1-dev on Debian 12
To uninstall only the flite1-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove flite1-dev
Uninstall flite1-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall flite1-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove flite1-dev
Remove flite1-dev Configurations and Data
To remove flite1-dev configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge flite1-dev
Remove flite1-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove flite1-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge flite1-dev
Dependencies
flite1-dev have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install flite1-dev package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
