Hello Martin, as the issue you describe is about Debian Stretch, maybe you will find help on the Debian accessibility mailing list? Best Didier On 28/03/2019 17:25, Martin McCormick wrote: > I know that speakup was upgraded some time ago and it quit > starting on every system I had upgraded to Debian Stretch. I > have a couple of systems that mersifully still talk and usually > log in to the stretch systems with no problem but this isn't > rightas the stretch systems should have the ability to talk on > their own so I am trying to get this ability back and the error > salad is uniquely opaque. > > I thought. Let's just delete the speakup package and > reinstall the new version and everything should be fine as we > will get the new scripts. Situation resolved right? > > Not exactly. Speech is always harder than you think > uness it just works from the get go. > > Here's what happened when I tried to do that: > > root@wb5agz:~# apt-get purge speakup > E: Unable to locate package speakup > > Okay. Then I should be able to install speakup right? > > root@wb5agz:~# apt-get install speakup > The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: > espeak espeak-data espeak-ng-data libespeak-ng1 libespeak1 libpcaudio0 > libsonic0 > Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them. > The following packages will be REMOVED: > espeakup* > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 25 not upgraded. > 12 not fully installed or removed. > After this operation, 79.9 kB disk space will be freed. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y > dpkg: error processing package espeakup (--remove): > package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should > reinstall it before attempting a removal > Errors were encountered while processing: > espeakup > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > My first response is, Ya. Tell me something I don't > already know. Let's try the autoremove and see what happens. > > root@wb5agz:~# apt-get autoremove > > Reading package lists... 0% > > Reading package lists... 100% > > Reading package lists... Done > > Building dependency tree... 0% > > Building dependency tree... 0% > > Building dependency tree... 50% > > Building dependency tree... 50% > > Building dependency tree... 60% > > Building dependency tree... 75% > > Building dependency tree... 91% > > Building dependency tree > > Reading state information... 0% > > Reading state information... 0% > > Reading state information... Done > The following additional packages will be installed: > espeakup > The following packages will be upgraded: > espeakup > 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 25 not upgraded. > 12 not fully installed or removed. > Need to get 0 B/37.2 kB of archives. > After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y > Reading changelogs... 100% > > Reading changelogs... 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