Installing Speakup separate from Linux.

[Janina Sajka]

Anna:

I'm not sure who you're responding to, because you didn't retain any of 
the message you're responding to. Since several of us wrote you, including 
me, I'm taking the liberty to say that this message below is not correct, 
from the perspective of my earlier note today. There's no reason to patch 
a kernel tree and compile a new kernel in order to get speakup into a Red 
Hat 7.2 installation. Red Hat has something called the Red Hat Package 
Manager, rpm for short, that will be very familiar to the Pogo people. 
It's a simple way of swapping a new kernel, one that has speakup in it, 
into your installation.

The difference between the rpm approach and compiling a new kernel is 
major. Using rpm, the Pogo people can have you up to speed in a matter of 
minutes. Doing the kernel route is at least an hour for an experienced 
person, and many many hours for someone doing it for the first time.
 On 
Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Anna Schneider wrote:

> Okay.  I need to read some how to documents before my computer actually 
> arrives.  I didn't unerstand most of that.  *grin*  The files to do either 
> of those options are on the Speak Up web site right?  I saw a file called 
> something like speakup.tar.gc or some such that I am assuming is Speakup 
> without a distribution, or Speakup I can stick on top of a distribution.
> 
> Anna
> 
> 
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				Janina Sajka, Director
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