Install Brltty-setup On A Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, Kali, CentOS, Fedora And Raspbian

Install Brltty-setup On A Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, Kali, CentOS, Fedora And Raspbian

brltty-setup

Access software for a blind person using a braille display

Maintainer: Debian Accessibility Team



Section: admin

Install brltty-setup

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

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).

Installing brltty-setup command is simple. just copy one of the above commands for your operating system and paste it into terminal. This command is available for Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, Kali, CentOS, Fedora and Raspbian operating systems. Once you run the command it will install the latest version of brltty-setup 2026 package in your OS.