Speakup installation

[hank smith]

and you need all 14 cds?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Hallenbeck" <chuckh at hhs48.com>
To: <sdawes at telus.net>; "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
<speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2005 9:04 AM
Subject: Re: Speakup installation


> No typo. The complete Debian package comes on 14 CD's, that's fourteen,
> ten plus four, The point being that I simply assumed you would know I
> meant Debian.
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 09:26:51AM -0600, Steve Dawes wrote:
> > Chuck,
> >
> > It isn't quite that bad. Your type'o has suggested that a full install
is 14
> > cds. I think you meant to say 4 cds. If you install all source in
addition
> > to all the binaries, you end up with 7 or 8 cds or 2 dvds.
> >
> > The problem I have with the selecting everything, or doing the full
install,
> > is that it is the easy way out. Yes it works, but it installs a lot of
> > unnecessary stuff and uses up a lot of resources. A good case in point
is
> > that it installs both kde and gnome.
> > Additionally, it doesn't install absolutely everything as it implies, it
> > installs almost everything on the binary disks and you need to install
the
> > source separately if you wish to. This approach also does nothing in
> > teaching how to set up a system with only the packages you need and
want.
> >
> > If you are only going to be using console based programs, there is no
need
> > to install any of the kde or gnome packages. It is incredible how much
space
> > can be saved when you take this approach.
> >
> > Now I am not knocking the installation howto that Janina has written. I
am
> > saying that what it does is a quick and easy install that gets the first
> > time user up-and-running on Linux. What I would like to see however, is
> > something that tells the user where they can find out more information
on
> > how to trim down their installation to only the packages they are going
to
> > use included in the howto. A simple reference to the Linux document page

> > does nothing to direct a new or novice user to good information about
> > creating a smaller or tidier installation.
> >
> >
> >
> > Steve
> >
> > Steve Dawes
> > Calgary Canada.
> >
> >
> >
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