How To Install jovie on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install jovie on Ubuntu 18.04. jovie is text-to-speech system

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install jovie on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is jovie

jovie is:

The Jovie text-to-speech system is a plugin based service that allows any KDE (or non-KDE) application to speak using the D-Bus interface.

It uses the speech-dispatcher daemon for the actual speech job; kmouth is an useful front-end for it.

This package is part of the KDE accessibility module.

There are three methods to install jovie 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 jovie Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install jovie using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install jovie

Install jovie Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install jovie using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install jovie

Install jovie 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 jovie using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install jovie

How To Uninstall jovie on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the jovie package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove jovie

Uninstall jovie And Its Dependencies

To uninstall jovie and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove jovie

Remove jovie Configurations and Data

To remove jovie configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge jovie

Remove jovie configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove jovie configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge jovie

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install jovie package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.