Hi. Ok we got it this time. Now I think I'll have a good look at the manual. Itlooks quite interesting. I am fairly experienced with ed because I still use it for making quick changes to things when I'm making changes to files and stuff. On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I had to get the pcre3 and pcre3-dev libraries (that stands for perl > compatible regular expressions) from the Debian repositories with > apt-get to compile it. > > As for being root, you do not need to be root to compile it, as long as > you have it in a directory where you have write permissions. In my case > I unpacked it under /usr/local/src, so of course I had to be root to > compile it there. > > For most packages, there is a "make install" step that moves some files > to places where root privileges are required, so normally you would > become root in order to do "make install". But with this package, there > is no "make install". You will have to copy the executable that results > from a successful compile to a directory on your path, such as > /usr/local/bin, and for that you will need to be root. > > There is a binary package that would save you the compile, but I am not > sure whether the manual and sample config file comes with it since I > have not used it. The following two links are to the manual in html > format, and to the binary precompiled verion, called "ee" (that's > double-e) > > HTH > > Chuck > > > > > > - -- > The Moon is Waning Crescent (22% of Full) > But you can still get downloads from http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFD/lwrXnuiIOyDVQURAkDKAKCCmWt2p5YwDjk0BqKX+WChuXYK7gCfXY4R > dqgmUsTGjTBmWJUj7lbXsbs= > =zJin > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
