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Category: freebsd

Text to speech on freeBSD using festival

Posted on October 31, 2020March 23, 2021 by mohamad wael

There are multiple options for text to speech under freebsd , for example espeak and festival . This tutorial is about festival .

To install festival , issue the following command :

root$ pkg install festival 

After installing festival , … Read More

freebsd festival, freebsd, tts

fix being unable to copy files using vmware shared folder from freebsd guest to host

Posted on October 6, 2020 by mohamad wael

To install vmware tools under freebsd , you can follow this post .

If you face a problem , while trying to copy files from freebsd 12.1 , to shared folders using vmware , like the following one :

Error 
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freebsd freebsd, vmware, vmware tools

Calculator applications available in FreeBSD

Posted on September 29, 2020February 23, 2021 by mohamad wael

There are multiple calculator application that can be used in freebsd . You can use the command pkg search calc in order to find calculators .

$ pkg search calc 
# search for an application , which has ,
# 
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freebsd acalc, calculator, freebsd, gnome-calculator, kcalc

How to install applications in freebsd ?

Posted on September 28, 2020February 23, 2021 by mohamad wael

To install application under freebsd , you can either use the pkg tool or the make tool . The pkg tool will install pre compiled binaries , whereas the make tool will build binaries from source .

The pkg tool

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freebsd freebsd, make, pkg, portmaster, ports, ports_collection, portsnap

Pdf , chm , djvu and epub viewers for freebsd

Posted on September 24, 2020September 25, 2020 by mohamad wael

qpdfview is a good choice for viewing pdf , it can be installed by runningĀ pkg install qpdfview as root .

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freebsd chm, djvu, epub, freebsd, pdf

How to install vmware tools freebsd ?

Posted on September 24, 2020September 25, 2020 by mohamad wael

To install xfce on freebsd , please check this post . To install vmware tools on freebsd , and while using the console , and before starting X , first change to root :

$ su - 
# switch to 
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freebsd freebsd, vmware, vmware tools

How to install xfce freebsd ?

Posted on September 24, 2020June 22, 2021 by mohamad wael

To install xfce on freebsd , this what must be done . First switch to root :

$ su - 
# switch to root , and enter your password . 

Next install Xorg :

$ pkg install xorg 
# install 
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freebsd freebsd, xfce