installing speakup
Jude DaShiell
jdashiel at shellworld.net
Tue Nov 13 23:26:03 UTC 2007
Can you get out to google.com successfully? If not, for sure that'll make
apt-get error out.
On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Daniel Dalton wrote:
> On 13/11/2007 3:38 AM, John Heim wrote:
>> Do you require a custom kernel? It would be easier to download a kernel
>> with speakup already compiled in. You can do that by going to
>
> OK. So I just get the kernel install it with apt and reboot? No messing with
> bootloaders is required?
>
>> http://people.debian.org/~shane/speakup/kernell/.
>
> The link didn't work for me?
>
>>
>> If you are using debian linux, you can do this:
>
> I am on debian. etch. So will the following instructions still work for me?
> Also my kernel is version
> 2.6.18-5
>
>>
>> 1. Add the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list file:
>>
>> deb http://people.debian.org/~shane/speakup/kernel ./
>
> Hmmm I get an error with apt-get update. Can you in close the line in
> quotation marks?
>
>>
>> 2. At the linux command line, type
>>
>> apt-get update
>
> When adding the following line and running apt-get update I get an error
> about this line.
> "deb http://people.debian.org/~shane/speakup/kernel ./"
>
> I also tried
> "deb http://people.debian.org/~shane/speakup/kernel"
> With no luck.
> The error I get is:
> "http://people.debian.org/~shane/speakup/kernel/ is not known on line in
> /etc/apt/sources.list"
> Any ideas?
> Or could I just download it to my system and install it manually?
> If so how?
>
> Thanks for your help. And if you could help me with this I would appreciate
> it.
>
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