How to Install and Uninstall brltty Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: April 27,2024

1. Install "brltty" package

Please follow the instructions below to install brltty on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


    
        
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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 Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


    
        
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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 Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: brltty
Architecture: amd64
Version: 6.0+dfsg-4ubuntu7
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: 7804
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), libicu67 (>= 67.1-1~), liblouis20 (>= 3.14.0), 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-4ubuntu7_amd64.deb
Size: 1169104
MD5sum: 33ec3062ce419178158403f495f3eaa8
SHA1: 156da4901ede43445600dac419ff0db43b6bcead
SHA256: 9834c65527ff166e14aec8477a2fb12a399b8fc7b9ef6fc42e0b83e25ceb1194
SHA512: 9d47bafcb6e3a41d89140816a03da7ce95b85f095e99f77ece66afa0173d95c28e8b5b6f977fbb5488ae745a3a76b39036940d17a82b70a2a5347380ace7baa2
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
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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 libbrlapi0.7. 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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