installing ubuntu with what may be missing pieces

[Bruce Noblick]

First, thanks to all for giving me the info to get through a couple of successful tries, putting different variations of ubuntu on the new machine I built. The last one was done using the live CD.  By using the references in other notes on this list, I got it to come up speaking.

Second, Here are some questions.  What will it take to get to a shell? What must I do to get speech from the shell, not just from the GUI?

Since I have installed this on a clean system, I would be willing to start over if that would be a better way to do things.  I have no reason to be tied to any particular distro if another one would be easier to get working fully.

Thanks!

Bruce Noblick 




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