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

Last updated: January 11,2025

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "emacspeak" package

Please follow the guidelines below to install emacspeak on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


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

Please follow the steps below to uninstall emacspeak 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 emacspeak package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: emacspeak
Version: 53.0+dfsg-2
Installed-Size: 30077
Maintainer: Debian Accessibility Team
Architecture: all
Depends: adduser, debconf, emacs (>= 1:26.1~), make, perl, tcl, tclx8.4, debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, perl:any
Recommends: emacspeak-espeak-server, sox
Suggests: eflite, emacspeak-ss, espeak, psgml, w3m-el, xsltproc
Description: speech output interface to Emacs
Description-md5: 1e098459f1d5faed9ec8b4ef129266ea
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://emacspeak.sf.net
Tag: accessibility::screen-reader, accessibility::speech,
implemented-in::lisp, implemented-in::perl, implemented-in::tcl,
interface::commandline, role::plugin, role::program, suite::emacs,
use::editing, works-with::audio
Section: editors
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/e/emacspeak/emacspeak_53.0+dfsg-2_all.deb
Size: 14385876
MD5sum: 8385dbf861050bef0de394579fe96edb
SHA256: e51a56a997e1546c8459ff6b0338b97eaa8f105b7755ab2916456c2bd4bf4320