How To Install fenrir on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fenrir
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is fenrir
fenrir is:
Fenrir is a young but powerful, modular and flexible console screen reader. It has a lot of functionality:
- spellchecker
- advanced review functionality
- copy/paste
- multiple clipboards
- not in kernel space
- echo: word, char and deletion
- date/ time announcement
- script key (add functionality via bash and let fenrir read the output)
- window mode
- highlight tracking mode
- easy to extent, plugin architecture
- promoted words (hear a sound if your name is spoken in IRC)
- periodic time announcement
- everything configurable
- per app scripts
- emoji replacement :) = smile
- user defined dictionary
- multiple keyboard layouts
- sound icons themes
There are three methods to install fenrir
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install fenrir Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install fenrir
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fenrir
Install fenrir Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fenrir
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fenrir
Install fenrir 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 fenrir
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fenrir
How To Uninstall fenrir on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the fenrir
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fenrir
Uninstall fenrir And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fenrir
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fenrir
Remove fenrir Configurations and Data
To remove fenrir
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fenrir
Remove fenrir configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fenrir
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fenrir
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fenrir
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.