Can One Add Speakup Consoles to a Standard Deb Installation?

[Martin McCormick]

	Many of the current talking installations are built
around gnome which is great if one has a system capable of
supporting it, but there are a number of useful systems around
that don't quite have enough resources to run or run properly
under gnome. Several years ago, there was oralux which would run
on just about anything, but it was built around obsolete designs
and fell by the wayside.

	Then, a few years ago, there was the Version 2 edition
of Vinux which is another one of those stout command-line
systems that will run on just about anything within reason but
it is no longer supported.

	The current versions of Vinux plus the ubuntu Live CD
seem to have some kind of issue with pulseaudio and will
absolutely not make a sound on anything I have which includes a
very nice Pentium4 system I acquired with a 3-GHZ processor and
slightly over a gigabyte of RAM, in other words, no good reason
for it not to work. By the way, the old standby which is the
Vinux2 disk from 2009 talked beautifully on that system, but
again, one can not upgrade it.

	So, is there a procedure to take a standard command-line
installation of Linux such as Debian Squeeze and add speakup to
it?

	The choice these days is between old installations that
work but can't be kept current and the latest and greatest that
seems to be very picky about what it will run on.

Thanks for your thoughts.

Martin McCormick WB5AGZ  Stillwater, OK 
Systems Engineer
OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications Services Group