Re: [Emacspeak] Installing Emacspeak on Ubuntu

[John Covici <covici@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think you need the espeak-ng package as opposed to just espeak --
not just the -dev package.

On Sun, 28 Apr 2024 01:43:23 -0400,
Lanie Carmelo (via emacspeak Mailing List) wrote:
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> Hi. I installed the dev package, but it's still not seeing that file.
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> On Sat, Apr 27, 2024 at 11:44 PM Bart Bunting <bart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > Looks like you’re missing the espeak ng dev package
> > Regards
> >
> > Bart
> >
> > > On 28 Apr 2024, at 2:23 PM, Lanie Carmelo <emacspeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > 
> > > Hi all. New subscriber here. I just put Linux on an old computer I have,
> > and I'm trying to install Emacspeak. I've tried both the directions on the
> > Emacspeak website and just installing the package found when I type sudo
> > apt install emacspeak. When I tried the first option for the first time,
> > make config didn't work, so I tried the second and got a Dpkg error code 1.
> > I then tried following the directions on the website again, and this time I
> > got to where I'm supposed to build a speech server. I chose eSpeak and made
> > sure all eSpeak packages were installed. I tried to build it by typing make
> > and got:
> > >
> > > g++ -g    -O2 -fPIC  -DPIC  -pedantic -ansi -Wall -Wno-long-long
> > --std=c++11 -I/usr/include/tcl8.6   -c -o tclespeak.o tclespeak.cpp
> > > tclespeak.cpp:41:10: fatal error: espeak-ng/speak_lib.h: No such file or
> > directory
> > >    41 | #include <espeak-ng/speak_lib.h>
> > >       |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > > compilation terminated.
> > > make: *** [<builtin>: tclespeak.o] Error 1
> > > rarebird15@rarebird15-HP-Laptop-14-dq0xxx:~/emacspeak/servers/native-espeak$
> > ^C
> > > rarebird15@rarebird15-HP-Laptop-14-dq0xxx
> > :~/emacspeak/servers/native-espeak$
> > >
> > > Has anyone else encountered this? Can you give me any suggestions on how
> > to fix it? Thanks.
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