How to Install and Uninstall brltty Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: May 03,2024

1. Install "brltty" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install brltty on Kali Linux


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

This tutorial shows how to uninstall brltty on Kali Linux:


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                brltty
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the brltty package on Kali Linux

Package: brltty
Source: brltty (6.6-4)
Version: 6.6-4+b3
Installed-Size: 8606
Maintainer: Debian Accessibility Team
Architecture: amd64
Replaces: libbrlapi1 (<< 3.7.2-7.1)
Depends: libasound2 (>= 1.0.16), libbluetooth3 (>= 4.91), libbrlapi0.8 (>= 6.6), 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 (>= 3.28.0), libncursesw6 (>= 6), libpcre2-32-0 (>= 10.22), libpolkit-gobject-1-0 (>= 0.101), libsystemd0, libtinfo6 (>= 6), polkitd | policykit-1
Pre-Depends: init-system-helpers (>= 1.54~)
Recommends: python3
Suggests: brltty-speechd, brltty-x11, console-braille, unicode-cldr-core
Size: 1521340
SHA256: 6269dc828e06f4bf2e1c328b3ee6f151d7027adf76878cd4c45c0cff7611798a
SHA1: 517353a1162a647983ac592c0760875edbec5312
MD5sum: 2f99d3842572f99c7bb8b9eafde943f8
Description: Access software for a blind person using a braille display
BRLTTY is a daemon which provides access to the console (text mode)
for a blind person using a braille display. It drives the braille
display and provides complete screen review functionality.
The following display models are supported:
* Alva/Optelec (ABT3xx, Delphi, Satellite, Braille System 40, BC 640/680)
* Baum
* BrailComm
* BrailleLite
* BrailleNote
* Cebra
* EcoBraille
* EuroBraille (AzerBraille, Clio, Esys, Iris, NoteBraille, Scriba)
* Freedom Scientific (Focus and PacMate)
* Handy Tech
* HIMS (Braille Sense, SyncBraille)
* HumanWare (Brailliant)
* Iris
* LogText 32
* MDV
* Metec (BD-40)
* NinePoint
* Papenmeier
* Pegasus
* Seika
* Tieman (Voyager, CombiBraille, MiniBraille, MultiBraille,
BraillePen/EasyLink)
* Tivomatic (Albatross)
* TSI (Navigator, PowerBraille)
* VideoBraille
* VisioBraille
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BRLTTY also provides a client/server based infrastructure for applications
wishing to utilize a Braille display. The daemon process listens for incoming
TCP/IP connections on a certain port. A shared object library for clients is
provided in the package libbrlapi0.8. A static library, header files and
documentation is provided in package libbrlapi-dev. Bindings to other
programming languages can be found in cl-brlapi (Lisp), libbrlapi-java (Java)
and python3-brlapi (Python).
Description-md5:
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_6.6-4+b3_amd64.deb