EASIER WAY TO INSTALL DEBIAN

[John G Heim]

So just to be clear, you are trying to upgrade from debian 7 to debian 
8, right? Whether it is easier to do that via a dist-upgrade or by 
reinstalling is user dependent. I usually reinstall but I also keep 
almost all my stuff on network drives. If you have a lot of stuff 
(personal files, configuration settings, and the like) on your machine, 
it might be easier to do a dist-upgrade. Be sure to do a regular 
upgrade/dist-upgrade before doing a dist-upgrade to the new version. If 
the dist-upgrade from debian 7 to 8 failed, the most likely explanation 
is that you haven't install the latest debian 7 upgrades yet. Put your 
old sources.list file back and then install all upgrades for debian 7 
before trying to upgrade to debian 8.
If you are doing a fresh install, and that fails, it is probably because 
the regular debian installer image does not include proprietary drivers. 
When you say it is asking for libraries, I am guessing you probably mean 
drivers which would confirm my guess. There is an alternate image 
available that includes proprietary drivers. You can google for that.


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Ubuntu has orca and speakup. However, out of the box, if you use orca, 
speakup will not work with software speech. There is a bug in pulseaudio 
that makes speakup fail when used with software speech if orca is 
already usingpulseaudio. You need to recompile a package called espeakup 
(with an E) to use alsa to make them work together. Or you can use 
hardware speech in speakup.  Or you can stick with debian which seems to 
have chosen to compile espeakup to use alsa by default. Another problem 
with ubuntu is that the latest version, 16.10 (yakkety) seems to have an 
inaccessible installer. I haven't tried it for a few months, and in fact 
17.04 should be out sson, however, as of January or so, the 16.10 
installer wouldn't talk.







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> I am running version seven Debian, and have run into a stumbling
> block.  When I try to install the system on my small netbook, it has a
> fit, telling me it needs a set of libraries.  The gentleman asssisting
> me says the sources.list file isn't pointing to the right place in the
> Debian repository? This sources file is on the debian network install
> disk.  Where do I find a good sources file?  I'm told not to place the
> sources file from any of my oter computers on that machine because of
> it's archetecture.  Should I upgrade to version eight?  The system
> says it's supporting a new directory structure. It hangs on a temp
> file, and I hafta do a control C to bail out.  Since the system was
> crashed, I even tried a dist-upgrade.  Should I buy a complete set of
> Debian Eight disks and install them?  I've also asked a friend if
> Ubuntu has Orca?  Does Ubuntu have Speak Up in it's repository? Does
> it have eximm four and n m h mail software?  I'm used to those?
>
> As Bill O'Reilly would say,
> "What say you?"
>
> Thank you for your courteous consideration of my question,
>
> Craig Martin
>
> ky0o at kc.rr.com
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