Hi Martin,
Samuel has sent instructions that you should follow, but I did not keep
that email. You say:
Until I get past that fallen tree, I can't move forward.
Go around it, leave the broken package like that if you cannot find/follow
Samuel's instructions. Just install espeakup from git.
Regards, Willem
On Sat, 30 Mar 2019, Martin McCormick wrote:
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Willem van der Walt <wvdwalt@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Hi again <Martin,
If I were you, at this point, this is what I would try.
1. First make sure espeak still works.
espeak "do you still talk"
If it talks, you know that the tts will work.
It still talks.
2. apt-get purge espeakup
There's where things seem to be set in concrete:
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
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] 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)
This is to try and get rid of the failed espeakup install which makes your
package manager unhappy.
The ironic thing is that apt-get is telling me the
package is in such bad shape that it won't be removed. To me,
that just screams "Let's start over and do it right."
Until I get past that fallen tree, I can't move forward.
3. Grab and build espeakup from git.
git clone git://github.com/williamh/espeakup.git
cd espeakup
make
make install
4. try running by hand.
modprobe speakup_soft if not yet done.
espeakup
press enter and see if you hear your prompt.
If you do, just put a line that says espeakup in your rc.local and make
sure rc.local has execute permitions.
chmod 755 /etc/rc.local
5. Check if the speakup_soft module is set to load at boot.
It wasn't right now but I went ahead and added it to /etc/modules
which is what debian uses. Debian is extremely closely related
to ubuntu.
On my ubuntu, there is a file: /etc/modules-load.d/modules.conf which
contains a line:
speakup_soft
I wou;ld suggest that, if you have such a file, you add the line to it if
it is not there. If your distro has another way of specifying modules to
load at boot time, use that.
If all else fails you can add the line to your /etc/rc.local.
5. Try rebooting and see if you still have speech.
HTH, Willem
I imagine the rest will work as soon as I get rid of what
is left of the old espeakup.
I am familiar with /etc/modules from when I couldn't
predict which sound card would be card 0 or card 1. That is what
udev sorts out but the order of the sound devices was different
about 50% of the time until I loaded the module for the on-board
sound card from /etc/modules and after that, the system was as
steady as a rock.
Martin
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