yasr command not found

Introduction

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

yasr: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: yasr: command not found

Solutions to yasr: command not found

How To Fix yasr: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu yasr is provided by yasr package.

yasr is:

Yasr is a general-purpose console screen reader for GNU/Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. The name “yasr” is an acronym that can stand for either “Yet Another Screen Reader” or “Your All-purpose Screen Reader”.

Currently, yasr attempts to support the Speak-out, DEC-talk, BNS, Apollo, and DoubleTalk synthesizers. It is also able to communicate with Emacspeak servers and can thus be used with synthesizers not directly supported, such as Festival Lite (via eflite) or FreeTTS.

Yasr is written in C and works by opening a pseudo-terminal and running a shell, intercepting all input and output. It looks at the escape sequences being sent and maintains a virtual “window” containing what it believes to be on the screen. It thus does not use any features specific to Linux and can be ported to other Unix-like operating systems without too much trouble.

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

sudo apt-get -y install yasr

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

You can also use apt command to install yasr.

sudo apt -y install yasr

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

sudo aptitude install yasr

Summary

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