How To Install kmouth on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install kmouth on Kali Linux.

What is kmouth

kmouth is:

KDE’s type-and-say frontend for speech synthesizers.

It includes a history of spoken sentences from which the user can select sentences to be re-spoken.

This package is part of the KDE accessibility module.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install kmouth

Install kmouth Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install kmouth

Install kmouth 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 update

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

sudo aptitude -y install kmouth

How To Uninstall kmouth on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove kmouth

Uninstall kmouth And Its Dependencies

To uninstall kmouth and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove kmouth

Remove kmouth Configurations and Data

To remove kmouth configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge kmouth

Remove kmouth configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge kmouth

Dependencies

kmouth have the following dependencies:

• kio
• libc6
• libkf5completion5
• libkf5configcore5
• libkf5configgui5
• libkf5configwidgets5
• libkf5coreaddons5
• libkf5i18n5
• libkf5kiocore5
• libkf5kiowidgets5
• libkf5widgetsaddons5
• libkf5xmlgui5
• libqt5core5a
• libqt5gui5
• libqt5printsupport5
• libqt5texttospeech5
• libqt5widgets5
• libqt5xml5
• libstdc++6
• qtspeech5-flite-plugin

References

• kmouth website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install kmouth package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.