Very true. In fact, if you run Ubuntu 14.04, there may even be a single command for Emacs/Emacspeak. sudo apt-get install emacspeak Check the version first to make sure it's not some antequated one like version 29 or something: apt-cache show emacspeak If it's 36 or 38 or something, you should be OK. Alex M On 9/27/14, Christopher Chaltain <chaltain@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Installing Emacs is probably just a command away, depending on the > distribution you're going with. If you're using a Ubuntu based > distribution for example, you can just run one command on the command > line to install Emacs. I'd suspect most popular distributions have a > pretty accessible Emacs package available to you. > > On 09/26/2014 05:02 PM, Alex Midence wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Briefly, no, emacspeak won't install the operating system for you. It >> won't even install Emacs for you. You need to have a Linux distro >> installed first. How you partition your hard drive is not a factor >> insofar as Emacspeak is concerned. Once you install your OS, you can >> either use the distro's package for Emacs and emacspeak or you can get the >> source code for Emacspeak and install it from there. You will need to >> have Emacs installed first. How to do that is a whole separate subject >> though. >> >> Alex >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Lorie McCloud [mailto:lorice804@xxxxxxxxxxx] >> Sent: Friday, September 26, 2014 3:40 PM >> To: emacspeak@xxxxxxxxxxx >> Subject: newbie >> >> Greetings: >> I just joined this list. I've been interested in Linux or unix for awhile >> now. I'm running windows xp. and don't want to go any farther down the >> windows road. I'm totally blind, have never seen a screen in my life so >> what I read about emacspeak really intrigues me. I have some basic >> questions that you guys may have answered a bunch of times already so if >> you want to tell me where to search for the answers, I'm good with that. >> >> when you install emacspeak, are you installing the whole operating system >> or do you have to do that first? can I partition my hard drive and install >> it alongside xp or do I need to take everything out? are there tutorials >> available for getting oriented to the desktop? >> >> thanks. >> Lorie >> -- >> http://www.youtube.com/user/LorieMccloud?feature=mhsn >> >> --- >> This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus >> protection is active. >> http://www.avast.com >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the emacspeak list or change your address on the >> emacspeak list send mail to "emacspeak-request@xxxxxxxxxxx" with a >> subject of "unsubscribe" or "help". >> >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the emacspeak list or change your address on the >> emacspeak list send mail to "emacspeak-request@xxxxxxxxxxx" with a >> subject of "unsubscribe" or "help". >> > > -- > Christopher (CJ) > chaltain at Gmail > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the emacspeak list or change your address on the > emacspeak list send mail to "emacspeak-request@xxxxxxxxxxx" with a > subject of "unsubscribe" or "help". > >
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