brltty on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)

Last updated: May 23,2022

1. Install brltty package

Please follow the instructions below to install brltty package:

sudo apt update

sudo apt install brltty

2. Uninstall / Remove brltty package

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall brltty package:

sudo apt remove brltty

sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove

3. Details of brltty package

Package: brltty

Architecture: amd64

Version: 6.0+dfsg-4ubuntu6

Multi-Arch: foreign

Priority: extra

Section: admin

Origin: Ubuntu

Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers 

Original-Maintainer: Debian Accessibility Team 

Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug

Installed-Size: 7784

Depends: libasound2 (>= 1.0.16), libbluetooth3 (>= 4.91), libbrlapi0.7, libc6 (>= 2.27), libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.9.14), libexpat1 (>= 2.0.1), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.16.0), libgpm2 (>= 1.20.7), libicu66 (>= 66.1~rc-1~), liblouis20 (>= 3.12.0), libncursesw6 (>= 6), libpcre2-32-0 (>= 10.22), libpolkit-gobject-1-0 (>= 0.101), libsystemd0, libtinfo6 (>= 6), lsb-base (>= 3.2-14), policykit-1, initramfs-tools (>= 0.40ubuntu30)

Recommends: python3

Suggests: brltty-speechd, brltty-x11, console-braille

Replaces: libbrlapi1 (<< 3.7.2-7.1)

Filename: pool/main/b/brltty/brltty_6.0+dfsg-4ubuntu6_amd64.deb

Size: 1163680

MD5sum: 6a28907058ecf4ae8dd7f3999288826d

SHA1: a65856871163d7f1542be7193793db8d98cea7d8

SHA256: c78aaeba72bf13d8e7e1eb4d8a40d13958c8c54d64769c9c8e3731752a9ae8f4

Homepage: https://brltty.com

Description-en: 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

 .

 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 libbrlapi0.7.  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: 166ce00955cfe49c97c5ddbc0efb38ea

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