INSTALLING EMACSPEAK WITH DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF LINUX

INSTALLING EMACSPEAK WITH DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF LINUX

[Michael Weaver]

Hi!
When you install Emacspeak, does it install in the same way under different
distros of Linux?
What I mean is are the instructions for installing Emacspeak the same under
other distros as Redhat?
I ask this just in case I have problems with Redhat.
I bought a box set of different Linux distros from Linux Emporium only
Redhat wasn't included, Thread Linux was although I don't know if this
distro is the same as Redhat and the only version of Redhat I have is 7.2
which someone coppied for me.  They didn't have the latest version until
recently.
This person who used to be my support worker or PA at Dewsbury college also
coppied Emacspeak and a few other utilities onto CD.  I am not exactly sure
what he coppied for me on this 3rd disk I gave him.  There seems to be the
utilities for emacspeak as well as emacspeak itself like Viavoice TTS and
Viavoice SDK Viavoice file, Lestif or something like that, Diasynth or
something like that, the tutorial for Emacspeak, something else which I
can't remember off hand and I may also have speakup on the CDROM as well.  I
don't think he wanted to waste space just coppying Emacspeak for me.
He may have coppied all the files from the directory for accessability
software at Redhat.  I am not quite sure fully what I have and I am not sure
whether I will be able to ask him as I don't have his address or email
address and as we were trying to get Redhat to install on my Compaq Laptop,
I didn't really have time to ask him as to all that was on this disc of
Emacspeak and the other utilities.
If I were to buy a new computer and use the CD Carlos created for me with
Emacspeak and the other utilities on, would someone at the store I get my
computer from be able to work some of this stuff out as to what I would need
to get going with Emacspeak?
Perhaps I should try and tell you what exactly is on this utility disk he
created with the speech software but the problem is, I use windows 98 and
for some reason, the file extesions are not always spoken out when I use My
Computer and I am not sure how to force it to speak all the extensions when
I move over the files and read the names.
Perhaps someone could help me with this question.

Re: INSTALLING EMACSPEAK WITH DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF LINUX

[Mario Lang]

"Michael Weaver" <drwho1@btinternet.com> writes:

> When you install Emacspeak, does it install in the same way under different
> distros of Linux?
Mostly yes.  There are always some little incompatibilities
between different Linux Distributions, but most of the
time, you should be fine.

> What I mean is are the instructions for installing Emacspeak the same under
> other distros as Redhat?
No.  Some use package managment system (like rpm or dpkg), and
others use source-level install, like make and make install.

> I ask this just in case I have problems with Redhat.
Try it first, then ask!

[...lots of gibberish deleted...]

> If I were to buy a new computer and use the CD Carlos created for me with
> Emacspeak and the other utilities on, would someone at the store I get my
> computer from be able to work some of this stuff out as to what I would need
> to get going with Emacspeak?

It would be a real suprise if someone at a standard computer store
would be clueful enough to install linux in the first place, and then
Emacspeak? No, I really don't belief that.

> Perhaps I should try and tell you what exactly is on this utility disk he
> created with the speech software but the problem is, I use windows 98 and
> for some reason, the file extesions are not always spoken out when I use My
> Computer and I am not sure how to force it to speak all the extensions when
> I move over the files and read the names.
Well, ouch!  This is ann exploerer setting.  Hide known file extensions
or something, but this is OT here.

I'd suggest you actually go and get yourself some documentation
aboout the beast you are attempting to tame here.  Read
the tutorial, read the user manual, there are installation instructions there.
Do read it, it will help you alot.

If you are planning to blindly install the stuff, and just
go and use it without documentation, you'll have to be
a wonderchild to manage it.

> Perhaps someone could help me with this question.

Oh yes, the manuals.  Come back if you really have a problem,
describe it then, we'll try to help if we can.

P.S.: stdiosynth, and the viavoice rpms are for the outloud
software speech server.  If you dont have a hardware speech
synth, I'd recommend you go for viavoice if you already
have those files.

-- 
CYa,
  Mario

Re: INSTALLING EMACSPEAK WITH DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF LINUX

[John]

Michael
Whether someone at the store can do it depends on how good they are with 
Linux. If they don't know Linux they will likely have some problems getting 
it going and maybe not do it very well.

If you want to try to find someone in your area who _IS_ good with Linux, 
outline your request and email it to lssb@mail.computerdatasafe.com.au

Remember to mention where you are.

You will get a message saying it needs to be approved because you're not a 
member, and I will approve it.

I cannot guarantee that you will find someone that way, but there are members 
of that list all over the world.


On Friday 23 August 2002 17:42, Michael Weaver wrote:
> If I were to buy a new computer and use the CD Carlos created for me with
> Emacspeak and the other utilities on, would someone at the store I get my
> computer from be able to work some of this stuff out as to what I would need
> to get going with Emacspeak?
> 

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