Getting speakup to run on debian

[mike]

Hi,

Speakup in Jessie installs seams to be a bit broken. I ownly ben able to get it working buy installing wheezy and upgrading to Jessie.

-----Original Message-----
From: Speakup [mailto:speakup-bounces at linux-speakup.org] On Behalf Of Steve Matzura
Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2015 7:09 AM
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. <speakup at linux-speakup.org>
Subject: Re: Getting speakup to run on debian

I just installed a fresh Jessie yesterday. The install was assisted by Speakup, which I started at the install screen main menu by pressing s<ENTER>. I was quite impressed with the way it all worked, with one silly exception: There was a screen with 78 choices, one per line, and I couldn't figure out how to scroll the screen backward to read the first and second screens of choices, so I just went with the default choice, which turned out to be the correct one for me for the question being asked. Very impressive. No Orca, no forms, just straight CLI. I love CLI.

Now then, the system is up and running, there's no desktop, I boot directly to the login prompt, and now I want to get Speakup working on the console terminals. Someone named Samuel from Debian accessibility told me I should install the espeakup package, but apt-get can't find it. What'd I do wrong? And why would I even need to be doing this since obviously Speakup is included in the install, you'd think, or at least I did, that it would already exist on the system and be able to be run.

Thanks in advance for any and all assistance and advice.
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