* Newbie questions about Speakup and debian?
@ Al Puzzuoli
` John covici
` (3 more replies)
0 siblings, 4 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Al Puzzuoli @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Speakup List
Hello all,
I have been dabbling in linux for several years but most of my experience has been with the RedHat/Fedora flavors. I recently set up my first system running Debian and have a few questions:
1. How can the dselect program be used effectively with speakup? I run it and I get to the point where it looks like I'm supposed to be able to choose packages; However, if I arrow around, Speakup doesn't seem to track. All it says is "description" after each press of any arrow key. Am I missing something basic here?
The reason I was playing with dselect in the first place was to insure a telnet server is installed and functional. if I can't do this with dselect what's the best way?
Also, any pointers to good Debian faqs would be much appreciated.
thanks,
--al
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Newbie questions about Speakup and debian? Al Puzzuoli
@ ` John covici
` Lorenzo Taylor
` (2 subsequent siblings)
3 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: John covici @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
You can use dselect with speakup, but aptitude is better. For dselect
just park the cursor on (usually if I remember correctly) the last
package before the description and that will be the one they are
talking about. Aptitude tracks much better.
Also, apt-cache search and apt-get install will help you greatly.
As a side note, ssh is to be preferred over a telnet server.
--
Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is:
How do
you spend it?
John Covici
covici@ccs.covici.com
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Newbie questions about Speakup and debian? Al Puzzuoli
` John covici
@ ` Lorenzo Taylor
` Arthur Pirika
` Al Puzzuoli
3 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Lorenzo Taylor @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
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Your best bet is to use aptitude.
aptitude install telnetd
will get a telnet server installed for you. And aptitude's 'visual interface'
tracks better with Speakup and other screen readers, since the cursor is always
placed on the line that is highlited.
HTH,
Lorenzo
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* Re: Newbie questions about Speakup and debian?
Newbie questions about Speakup and debian? Al Puzzuoli
` John covici
` Lorenzo Taylor
@ ` Arthur Pirika
` Al Puzzuoli
3 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Arthur Pirika @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Hi there, If your running debian 3.1 (sarge), a much better sollution is aptitude... this tracks much better with speakup than dselect does.
As for good debian faqs, just take a look at the documentation section of debian.org... there's also a package you can install (doc-debian, I think?)
hth,
Arthur
On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 04:44:14PM -0400, Al Puzzuoli wrote:
> Hello all,
> I have been dabbling in linux for several years but most of my experience has been with the RedHat/Fedora flavors. I recently set up my first system running Debian and have a few questions:
> 1. How can the dselect program be used effectively with speakup? I run it and I get to the point where it looks like I'm supposed to be able to choose packages; However, if I arrow around, Speakup doesn't seem to track. All it says is "description" after each press of any arrow key. Am I missing something basic here?
> The reason I was playing with dselect in the first place was to insure a telnet server is installed and functional. if I can't do this with dselect what's the best way?
>
> Also, any pointers to good Debian faqs would be much appreciated.
>
> thanks,
>
> --al
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* Re: Newbie questions about Speakup and debian?
Newbie questions about Speakup and debian? Al Puzzuoli
` (2 preceding siblings ...)
` Arthur Pirika
@ ` Al Puzzuoli
` Charles Hallenbeck
3 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Al Puzzuoli @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Thanks to everyone for suggesting aptitude. It did the trick nicely.
--Al
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