How to Install and Uninstall ebook-speaker Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: May 08,2024

1. Install "ebook-speaker" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install ebook-speaker on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

$ sudo apt update $ sudo apt install ebook-speaker

2. Uninstall "ebook-speaker" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to uninstall ebook-speaker on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):

$ sudo apt remove ebook-speaker $ sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove

3. Information about the ebook-speaker package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: ebook-speaker
Architecture: amd64
Version: 5.4.0-1
Multi-Arch: foreign
Priority: optional
Section: universe/sound
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Accessibility Team
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 378
Depends: espeak, libsox-fmt-mp3, libsox-fmt-pulse, sox, unar, wget, libc6 (>= 2.14), libmagic1 (>= 5.12), libncursesw6 (>= 6), libpulse0 (>= 5.0), libsox3 (>= 14.4.2~), libtinfo6 (>= 6), libxml2 (>= 2.7.4)
Recommends: pandoc
Suggests: calibre, ghostscript, libreoffice-writer, man2html-base, netpbm, tesseract-ocr | cuneiform, poppler-utils, sane-utils, txt2man, unrtf
Filename: pool/universe/e/ebook-speaker/ebook-speaker_5.4.0-1_amd64.deb
Size: 150268
MD5sum: b00d139c6b3b2059e4b23f0fda87e797
SHA1: e5adfeef525e4372037589580da1d830a465ac2e
SHA256: e3234db196ef1ce0d935a9e763c8eb9fd607ab1ebb9d906aa7e76739826611a4
SHA512: 3235c7280556bab6e7f297fc7bbe143a96b2fa05121633e29622d8557bd3ad3e848081e84ad8ca7712e058aea9f8f70ddfd6625532ac47391a7f5e4a1d81b10c
Homepage: http://jlemmens.nl/
Description-en: eBook reader that reads aloud in a synthetic voice
This package provides a command-line e-reader that reads out
electronic text using speech synthesis. It has a simple user
interface appropriate for Braille terminals.
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Currently the following formats are supported (some formats need
additional packages as suggested by this package):
AportisDoc
ASCII mail text
ASCII text
Broadband eBooks (BBeB)
Composite Document File (Microsoft Office Word)
DAISY3 DTBook
EPUB ebook data
GIF image data
GutenPalm zTXT
GNU gettext message catalogue
HTML document
ISO-8859 text
JPEG image data
Microsoft Reader eBook Data
Microsoft Windows HtmlHelp Data
Microsoft Word 2007+
Mobipocket E-book
MS Windows HtmlHelp Data
Netpbm PPM data
OpenDocument Text
PDF document
PeanutPress PalmOS
PNG image data
POSIX shell script text
PostScript document
Rich Text Format
troff or preprocessor text (e.g. Linux man-pages)
UTF-8 Unicode mail text
UTF-8 Unicode text
WordPerfect
XML document text
Description-md5: e38ac2066ae8956b8f617f3dabf43e0e