Re: Installing Debian Woody with BRLTTY

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Cheryl Homiak <chomiak@chartermi.net> writes:

[...]

> 7. I am currently using the "testing" version of debian, and even in
> testing the brltty version is still 2.99.5,

stable   brltty 2.99.5-2woody1   (333.2k)
testing  brltty 3.0-1            (373.8k)
unstable brltty 3.0-1            (373.8k)

(according to packages.debian.org/brltty)

brltty 3.0 came out when woody was already solidly frozen, bad timing :(

> and the speech part of brltty, at least when
> I tried using the debian package, wasn't implemented.

Which driver did you try to use?

[...]

> debian config for it to be justabout as complicated (maybe a little
> more so) as compiling and installing it myself.

Could you explain why?  What could be done better?

> The one advantage I can see to using the debian package is that you
> don't have to try to figure out where to put the commands to make
> brltty come up at boot; as I recall, the debian package does that
> for you in some way.
True.  You get an init script for free.
Also, the config process writes a correct /etc/brltty.conf for you.

-- 
CYa,
  Mario



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