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

Last updated: February 24,2025

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "espeakup" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install espeakup on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "espeakup" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall espeakup on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


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

Package: espeakup
Version: 1:0.90-13
Installed-Size: 70
Maintainer: Debian Accessibility Team
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libasound2 (>= 1.0.16), libc6 (>= 2.34), libespeak-ng1 (>= 1.51+dfsg), lsb-base
Description: Connector between speakup kernel modules and espeak
Description-md5: 55732b96fe38aafca9eaf0eea263f40b
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://www.github.com/williamh/espeakup
Tag: accessibility::speech, interface::daemon, role::program
Section: admin
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/e/espeakup/espeakup_0.90-13_amd64.deb
Size: 19696
MD5sum: c1b02050392ed453fb933c5c138831ff
SHA256: 998a2596d718b294ae358dd3b5db80149803d7a2e38ca05cad6235fbffe961c3