How To Install libflite1 on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libflite1 on Kali Linux.

What is libflite1

libflite1 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 package contains the shared library objects of Festival Lite

There are three methods to install libflite1 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 libflite1 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libflite1 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libflite1

Install libflite1 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libflite1 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libflite1

Install libflite1 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 libflite1 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libflite1

How To Uninstall libflite1 on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libflite1 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libflite1

Uninstall libflite1 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libflite1 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libflite1

Remove libflite1 Configurations and Data

To remove libflite1 configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libflite1

Remove libflite1 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libflite1 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libflite1

Dependencies

libflite1 have the following dependencies:

• libasound2
• libc6

References

• libflite1 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libflite1 package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.