How to Install and Uninstall festival-dev Package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Last updated: March 03,2025

1. Install "festival-dev" package

This is a short guide on how to install festival-dev on Debian 10 (Buster)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                festival-dev
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "festival-dev" package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall festival-dev on Debian 10 (Buster):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                festival-dev
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the festival-dev package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Package: festival-dev
Source: festival
Version: 1:2.5.0-3
Installed-Size: 3419
Maintainer: Debian TTS Team
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libestools-dev (>= 1:2.4~release)
Suggests: festival-doc
Description: Development kit for the Festival speech synthesis system
Description-md5: c6cfe35c7115aaa7f9f714120b2270c9
Homepage: http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/
Tag: accessibility::speech, devel::interpreter, devel::lang:scheme,
devel::library, implemented-in::scheme, interface::text-mode,
role::devel-lib, role::program, uitoolkit::ncurses, works-with::audio
Section: libdevel
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/f/festival/festival-dev_2.5.0-3_amd64.deb
Size: 535228
MD5sum: 9f62a548d5aab6b234988eb1f7d3cd38
SHA256: 03b912a35c5c5555775a7ef47a5e0c4a57e03feb72a198fa8634ce5528ffac6e