ebook-speaker command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix ebook-speaker command not found error message

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

ebook-speaker: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ebook-speaker: command not found

Solutions to ebook-speaker: command not found

How To Fix ebook-speaker: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu ebook-speaker is provided by ebook-speaker package.

ebook-speaker is:

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.

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

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install ebook-speaker

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install ebook-speaker.

sudo apt -y install ebook-speaker

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install ebook-speaker

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix ebook-speaker command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.