How To Install natbraille on Ubuntu

Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install natbraille on Ubuntu.

What is `natbraille`

natbraille is:

Nat is a braille translation engine that can translate into transcribed French braille:

Text documents
OpenOffice 1 and 2 documents, including equations.
Microsoft Word documents saved as text, whose equations have been converted to mathml with MathType
Simple HTML documents which respect norms.

There are three methods to install natbraille on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install natbraille Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install natbraille using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install natbraille

Install natbraille Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install natbraille using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install natbraille

Install natbraille Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install natbraille using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install natbraille

How To Uninstall natbraille on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the natbraille package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove natbraille

Uninstall natbraille And Its Dependencies

To uninstall natbraille and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove natbraille

Remove natbraille Configurations and Data

To remove natbraille configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge natbraille

Remove natbraille configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove natbraille configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge natbraille

Dependencies

natbraille have the following dependencies:

References

natbraille website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install natbraille package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.