Getting speakup to run on debian

[Steve Matzura]

OK, I had a couple things set up incorrectly in sources.list, but
there's a whole 'nuther story behind why, which I'll not bore you all
with, but suffice it to say my system is set up correctly but still
not talking,  probably because I don't know the proper way to make
that happen.

Re bug reporting, I'm exhausting all possibilities first before
putting down what's not working to a bug because with me, it usually
isn't. I've found a few in my time, but am always hesitant to report
something as such in case I'm the one having done something wrong.
However, this one's apparently a valid Debian bug, so after I get it
solved, I will put it in.

On Thu, 31 Dec 2015 08:10:41 -0500, you wrote:

>Oh that's bizarre. And the Debian accessibility department says it
>should be good. Since my installation is just for testing, should I
>start again with 7 and try upgrading to 8? And if so, what's the
>recommended procedure for doing that without breaking espeakup or
>Speakup itself?
>
>On Thu, 31 Dec 2015 07:41:47 -0500, you wrote:
>
>>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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