How To Install praat on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install praat on Debian 11.
What is praat
praat is:
According to its authors, praat is “doing phonetics by computer”. Through its graphical interface, several speech analysis functionalities are available: spectrograms, cochleograms, and pitch and formant extraction. Articulatory synthesis, as well as synthesis from pitch, formant, and intensity are also available. Other features are segmentation, labelling using the phonetic alphabet, and computation of statistics. Praat is configurable and extensible through its own scripting language and has provisions for communicating with other programs.
There are three methods to install praat on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install praat Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install praat using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install praat
Install praat Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install praat using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install praat
Install praat 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 praat using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install praat
How To Uninstall praat on Debian 11
To uninstall only the praat package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove praat
Uninstall praat And Its Dependencies
To uninstall praat and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove praat
Remove praat Configurations and Data
To remove praat configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge praat
Remove praat configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove praat configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge praat
Dependencies
praat have the following dependencies:
- libasound2
- libc6
- libcairo2
- libgcc-s1
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk-3-0
- libpango-1.0-0
- libpangocairo-1.0-0
- libpulse0
- libstdc++6
- libx11-6
- oss-compat
- python3
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install praat package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.