How To Install kmouth on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install kmouth on Ubuntu 22.04. kmouth is type-and-say frontend for speech synthesizers

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install kmouth on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is kmouth

kmouth is:

KDE’s type-and-say frontend for speech synthesizers.

It includes a history of spoken sentences from which the user can select sentences to be re-spoken.

This package is part of the KDE accessibility module.

There are three methods to install kmouth on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install kmouth Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install kmouth

Install kmouth Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install kmouth

Install kmouth 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 kmouth using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install kmouth

How To Uninstall kmouth on Ubuntu 22.04

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

sudo apt-get remove kmouth

Uninstall kmouth And Its Dependencies

To uninstall kmouth and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove kmouth

Remove kmouth Configurations and Data

To remove kmouth configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge kmouth

Remove kmouth configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge kmouth

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install kmouth package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.