re: problem with installing speakup

re: problem with installing speakup

[Thomas Ward]

Hi. Ok, I am a Mandrake user myself, and there are somethings you are going
to have to do here. Winzip will open tar.gz files, but you have to build a
new kernel, or get a binary one off of me to get speakup to work.
I'm currently making a binary rpm easy to install version of speakup for
Mandrake 8.1/8.2, but I am not done with that project.
If you like want this right away you'll have too build from source.  The
Mandrake 8.1 source doesn't patch well with speakup so you'll have to
download the kernel source from kernel.org, patch speakup source into it,
then configure, and build the new kernel.
Lastly, put an entry into your lilo.conf to reflect the new kernel, and the
kernel options you want.
If ythis sounds a bit much for you I've got three suggestions you can try.
A. put emacspeak on. B. Wait form my rpm package I am working on. C. Try
something like Red Hat 7.3 off of the Speakup site that has speakup already
built and configured.
You can discuss Mandrake off list with me at slingshooter@valkyrie.net if
you have more questions.

problem with installing speakup

[Pham Trang]

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I'm trying to install Linux Mandrake 8.1, and i try to use speakup with  But in fact I can't install speakup work with it.
Any case , I try to unzip speakup-1.00.tar.gz for using with Linux but I can't use.
Please tell me which software i can use like JAWS under Linux Mandrake 8.1.



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Re: problem with installing speakup

[Deedra Waters]

What problems are you having? Did you look at the documentation first? 

On Sat, 25 May 2002, Pham Trang wrote:

> I'm trying to install Linux Mandrake 8.1, and i try to use speakup with  But in fact I can't install speakup work with it.
> Any case , I try to unzip speakup-1.00.tar.gz for using with Linux but I can't use.
> Please tell me which software i can use like JAWS under Linux Mandrake 8.1.
> 
> 
> 

Re: problem with installing speakup

[Cheryl Homiak]

I think the problem is you can't unzip a tar.gz file. You have to use the linux
tar program.
In order to use the speakup-1.00.tar.gz package, you need an already running
linux system with the kernel source in /usr/src. Then you have to  place
the tar.gz file in /usr/src and unpack it by doing
tar xzf speakup-1.00.tar.gz
Then you have to read the instructions in the INSTALLATION file.
there are ready-made floppy and/or iso-images for installing some linux
distributions with speakup already compiled in, but I don't know that this has
been done for mandrake. If this has been done, somebody on this list will know.
Hope this helps.


Cheryl