How To Install Xbrlapi In Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, Kali, CentOS, Fedora And Raspbian?

How To Install Xbrlapi In Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, Kali, CentOS, Fedora And Raspbian?

xbrlapi

Application Programming Interface for BRLTTY

Maintainer: Debian Accessibility Team



Section: admin

Install xbrlapi

  • Debian apt-get install xbrlapi Click to copy
  • Ubuntu apt-get install xbrlapi Click to copy
  • Arch Linux pacman -S xbrlapi Click to copy
  • Kali Linux apt-get install xbrlapi Click to copy
  • CentOS yum install brlapi Click to copy
  • Fedora dnf install brlapi Click to copy
  • Raspbian apt-get install xbrlapi Click to copy

brlapi

Application Programming Interface for BRLTTY

xbrlapi

Access software for a blind person using a braille display - xbrlapi

BRLTTY is a daemon which provides access to the Linux console (text mode) for a blind person using a braille display. It drives the braille display and provides complete screen review functionality. This package provides xbrlapi, a brltty X11 helper which handles proper keyboard simulation and window selection.

brltty-dbg

debugging symbols for brltty

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. This package contains the debugging symbols for BRLTTY.

brltty

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 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 libbrlapi0.6. 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 python-brlapi (Python).

Installation of latest xbrlapi command is available for Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, Kali, CentOS, Fedora and Raspbian. You can copy the command for your OS from above and paste it into your terminal. Once you run the command it will download the 2026 latest package from the repository and install it in your computer/server.