How to Install and Uninstall brltty Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: May 03,2024

You can also install and uninstall the brltty on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "brltty" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to install brltty on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "brltty" package

Please follow the guidance below to uninstall brltty on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the brltty package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: brltty
Version: 6.5-7+deb12u1
Installed-Size: 8329
Maintainer: Debian Accessibility Team
Architecture: amd64
Replaces: libbrlapi1 (<< 3.7.2-7.1)
Depends: libasound2 (>= 1.0.16), libbluetooth3 (>= 4.91), libbrlapi0.8 (>= 6.5), libc6 (>= 2.34), libcap2 (>= 1:2.10), libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.9.14), libexpat1 (>= 2.0.1), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.16.0), libgpm2 (>= 1.20.7), libicu72 (>= 72.1~rc-1~), liblouis20 (>= 3.24.0), libncursesw6 (>= 6), libpcre2-32-0 (>= 10.22), libpolkit-gobject-1-0 (>= 0.101), libsystemd0, libtinfo6 (>= 6), lsb-base, polkitd | policykit-1
Pre-Depends: init-system-helpers (>= 1.54~)
Recommends: python3
Suggests: brltty-speechd, brltty-x11, console-braille, unicode-cldr-core
Description: Access software for a blind person using a braille display
Description-md5: 7a5f7509a70f80406cf9f9a599ae705e
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://brltty.com
Tag: accessibility::input, accessibility::screen-reader, implemented-in::c,
interface::text-mode, role::program, scope::utility,
uitoolkit::ncurses, use::driver
Section: admin
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/b/brltty/brltty_6.5-7+deb12u1_amd64.deb
Size: 1485796
MD5sum: 5875592304ee33fb923c65781962403c
SHA256: b71e4b7531f13fbab376fcefa6834a4fbc5191278e673cd14c785c52c7c3848f