Re: emacs newbie

[Tim Cross <theophilusx@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't believe there are any installation order dependencies with the
packages for tcl, tclx and espeak. I know that under ubuntu, current
versions of flite work fine with Alsa and don't need any patches. I
know little about eflite.

As Jason has mentioned, before running emacspeak, you need to run just
the server scripts within a normal console. The process speaker not
running is almost always due to the server scripts failing and you
need to run them at the console to see exactly what the error is.
There is little benefit in running emacspeak before sorting out issues
with the servers.

If your emacspeak source is installed in
/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacspeak, you need to cd to
/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacspeak/servers and run the servers
from that directory and verify they are working. Only once you have
verified this should you attempt to run emacspeak itself.

HTH

Tim


On 13 March 2012 21:01, Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have in my .profile file:
> export EMACS_DIR=/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacspeak
> export DTK_PROGRAM=eflite
>
> changing eflite to espeak just gets process speaker not running.  I have
> tcl from the archlinux repository I think community and have tclx from aur
> and both installed with no problems.  The eflite package required the
> flite package both from aur and those are installed as well.  Right now, I
> think all of this is extremely installation order-sensitive and if I don't
> get the exactly right order of installation correct none of this is likely
> to work.  Sometimes on reboot I have to source .profile too since
> archlinux does not talk after it boots until I key in my username and
> password.  I installed the aur emacspeak-34 version on this system and
> would like to be able to install from svn if I can learn enough to get
> this done.
>
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