How to Install and Uninstall brltty Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: April 20,2024

1. Install "brltty" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install brltty on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


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

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall brltty on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the brltty package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: brltty
Architecture: amd64
Version: 6.3+dfsg-1ubuntu2
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: 7904
Depends: libasound2 (>= 1.0.16), libbluetooth3 (>= 4.91), libbrlapi0.8 (>= 6.3+dfsg), 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), libicu67 (>= 67.1-1~), liblouis20 (>= 3.18.0), 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_6.3+dfsg-1ubuntu2_amd64.deb
Size: 1340630
MD5sum: f5659aadc92da455ccc4e80bec3050c4
SHA1: af9d5e62c27e2f0425fed855c4ee73edd9c68487
SHA256: 1de536d6c7851b26d94088576eabbf69f2da590e2499eec6f5d614cdf0f51559
SHA512: 4e3c47139f205579b0ff20d9b689d1ead4052176d1de85c84285aedbff6a9fb4756ba7897770848e3e725b2fb3811ed416fbcec04c4a54393be6a54f432f87cd
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 libbrlapi0.8. 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: 7a5f7509a70f80406cf9f9a599ae705e
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