How to Install Kavita on OpenBSD

Kavita is a text-to-speech (TTS) application that works with various languages and voices. In this tutorial, we will go through the steps required to install Kavita on OpenBSD.

Prerequisites

Before we begin, we assume you have the following:

• Administrative access to an OpenBSD machine.
• Internet connectivity to download the required packages.

Steps

1. Install the necessary dependencies:

   $ doas pkg_add -v lame py3-setuptools py3-gobject3
   

2. Download the Kavita source code from the official website.

   $ wget https://dl.kavitareader.com/kavita-latest.tar.gz
   

3. Extract the downloaded archive.

   $ tar xvzf kavita-latest.tar.gz
   

4. Change the directory to the extracted folder.

   $ cd kavita-<version-number>
   

5. Install Kavita using the following command:

   $ doas python3 setup.py install
   

6. After the installation process is complete, launch Kavita by running the following command:

   $ kavita
   

   You can also launch Kavita from the Applications menu.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we walked through the steps to install Kavita on OpenBSD. You are now ready to use Kavita for your text-to-speech requirements.

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