How To Install yasr on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install yasr on Ubuntu 18.04.
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 Ubuntu 18.04. 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 first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 18.04
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 Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove yasr
Remove yasr Configurations and Data
To remove yasr configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 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
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install yasr package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
