How to Install and Uninstall ebook-speaker Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 08,2024

1. Install "ebook-speaker" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install ebook-speaker on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "ebook-speaker" package

Please follow the steps below to uninstall ebook-speaker on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                ebook-speaker
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the ebook-speaker package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: ebook-speaker
Priority: optional
Section: universe/sound
Installed-Size: 268
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Accessibility Team
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2.8.1-1build1
Depends: espeak, unar, libc6 (>= 2.4), libmagic1 (>= 5.12), libncursesw5 (>= 6), libsox2 (>= 14.4.0), libtinfo5 (>= 6), libxml2 (>= 2.7.4)
Suggests: calibre, ghostscript, libreoffice-writer, man2html-base, tesseract-ocr, pandoc, poppler-utils, sane-utils, xml2
Filename: pool/universe/e/ebook-speaker/ebook-speaker_2.8.1-1build1_amd64.deb
Size: 115242
MD5sum: fe64caf09a5061e0b10dba83ce9578fe
SHA1: d961dc8a4574b421c98e8a2251ccaebb3760dd9b
SHA256: 00ec3bbacfae514d437d8585d7c8d6d0a312d256b6b28c5bc6168b146a0df16e
Description-en: eBook reader that reads aloud in a synthetic voice
This package provides a command-line e-reader that reads out
electronic books 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
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
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: 23cb26068968dc54c4e9953899128b3b
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://jlemmens.nl/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu