How To Install orca-sops on Debian 10

Learn how to install orca-sops on Debian 10 with this tutorial. orca-sops is simple orca plugin system

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install orca-sops on Debian 10.

What is orca-sops

orca-sops is:

The simple orca plugin system is an interface to enhance Orca with custom commands. The simple interface allows the usage of any executable (including scripts such as shell scripts) to provide information to the user, while the more advanced API allows for modification of all parts of the screen reader by accessing its internal state. Plugins are called using a configurable key stroke.

This package comes with two example plugins, one to speak the current clip board content and another to announce the current desktop work space.

There are three methods to install orca-sops on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install orca-sops Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install orca-sops

Install orca-sops Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install orca-sops

Install orca-sops 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 orca-sops using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install orca-sops

How To Uninstall orca-sops on Debian 10

To uninstall only the orca-sops package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove orca-sops

Uninstall orca-sops And Its Dependencies

To uninstall orca-sops and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove orca-sops

Remove orca-sops Configurations and Data

To remove orca-sops configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge orca-sops

Remove orca-sops configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge orca-sops

Dependencies

orca-sops have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install orca-sops package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.