Seeking Help to Install Emacspeak for Friend

["Patrick Gordon" <pcgordon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm brand new to Linux/Unix, though I have experience with the Windows environment, and many years ago, Multics and Emacs.  The only reason I'm venturing off the Windows reservation now is because emacspeak looks like the only hope a blind friend of mine has to experience the Internet.  I have a clean install of RH Linux 7.2, have read pertinent documentation as necessary, but I seem to have hit a wall installing emacspeak.

 

First, I carefully read the instructions and tried install emacspeak-14.01

 

http://www.redhat.com/services/techsupport/accessibility/s1-access-install.html

 

Most recently, I attempted to install v 15 and followed the instructions at:

 

http://howtos.linuxbroker.com/howtoreader.shtml?file=Emacspeak-HOWTO.html

 

Both times the end result was the same.  Loading and linking seem to work fine, but after entering the emacspeak command, emacs came up without a trace of emacspeak and had the following messages in the "Compile" and "Message" buffers:

 

 

"MESSAGE" BUFFER:

 

Loading cl-extra...
Loading cl-extra...done
Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/aspell-init.el (source)...
Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/aspell-init.el (source)...done
Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/lang.emacs.el (source)...
Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/lang.emacs.el (source)...done
Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/po-mode-init.el (source)...
Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/po-mode-init.el (source)...done
Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/psgml-init.el (source)...
Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/psgml-init.el (source)...done
Loading cus-face...
Loading cus-face...done
Finished loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/egg/leim-list.el
   and load others...
For information about the GNU Project and its goals, type C-h C-p.
Loading cl-macs...
Loading cl-macs...done
Loading emacspeak...
Loading bytecomp...
Loading bytecomp...done
Loading byte-opt...
Loading byte-opt...done
Loading emacspeak...done
Loading env...
Loading env...done
Searching for program: no such file or directory, tcl

"COMPILE LOG" BUFFER:

 

  ** reference to free variable
     emacspeak-backward-delete-char-speak-deleted-char
  ** reference to free variable
     emacspeak-backward-delete-char-speak-current-char
  ** reference to free variable
     emacspeak-backward-delete-char-speak-deleted-char
  ** reference to free variable
     emacspeak-backward-delete-char-speak-current-char

I suspect that this means there is a problem with a "tcl" module.  I see that the standard RH 7,2 distribution has tcl software, but I'm not sure what to do with it or how to tell whether it is already installed.

 

Would somebody mind pointing me in the right direction, please?

 

 

 

 

 

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