How To Install yasr on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is yasr

yasr is:

Yasr is a general-purpose console screen reader for GNU/Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. The name “yasr” is an acronym that can stand for either “Yet Another Screen Reader” or “Your All-purpose Screen Reader”.

Currently, yasr attempts to support the Speak-out, DEC-talk, BNS, Apollo, and DoubleTalk synthesizers. It is also able to communicate with Emacspeak servers and can thus be used with synthesizers not directly supported, such as Festival Lite (via eflite) or FreeTTS.

Yasr is written in C and works by opening a pseudo-terminal and running a shell, intercepting all input and output. It looks at the escape sequences being sent and maintains a virtual “window” containing what it believes to be on the screen. It thus does not use any features specific to Linux and can be ported to other Unix-like operating systems without too much trouble.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install yasr

Install yasr Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install yasr

Install yasr 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 yasr using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install yasr

How To Uninstall yasr on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove yasr

Uninstall yasr And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove yasr

Remove yasr Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge yasr

Remove yasr configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge yasr

Dependencies

yasr have the following dependencies:

• libc6

References

• yasr website

Summary

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