Linux 9 stretch What to do about reviving speakup?

[Willem van der Walt]

  Hi Martin,
Samuel has sent instructions that you should follow, but I did not keep 
that email.  You say:
Until I get past that fallen tree, I can't move forward.
Go around it, leave the broken package like that if you cannot find/follow 
Samuel's instructions. Just install espeakup from git.
Regards, Willem


On Sat, 30 Mar 2019, Martin McCormick wrote:

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> Willem van der Walt <wvdwalt at csir.co.za> writes:
>> Hi again <Martin,
>> If I were you, at this point, this is what I would try.
>> 1. First make sure espeak still works.
>> espeak "do you still talk"
>> If it talks, you know that the tts will work.
>
> It still talks.
>
>> 2. apt-get purge espeakup
>
> There's where things seem to be set in concrete:
>
> Reading package lists...
> Building dependency tree...
> Reading state information...
> The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
>  espeak espeak-data espeak-ng-data libespeak-ng1 libespeak1 libpcaudio0
>  libsonic0
> Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them.
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>  espeakup*
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 25 not upgraded.
> 12 not fully installed or removed.
> After this operation, 79.9 kB disk space will be freed.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] dpkg: error processing package espeakup (--remove):
> package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should
> reinstall it before attempting a removal
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> espeakup
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>>
>> This is to try and get rid of the failed espeakup install which makes your
>> package manager unhappy.
>
> 	The ironic thing is that apt-get is telling me the
> package is in such bad shape that it won't be removed.  To me,
> that just screams "Let's start over and do it right."
>
> 	Until I get past that fallen tree, I can't move forward.
>
>> 3. Grab and build espeakup from git.
>> git clone git://github.com/williamh/espeakup.git
>> cd espeakup
>> make
>> make install
>>
>> 4. try running by hand.
>> modprobe speakup_soft if not yet done.
>> espeakup
>> press enter and see if you hear your prompt.
>>
>> If you do, just put a line that says espeakup in your rc.local and make
>> sure rc.local has execute permitions.
>>
>> chmod 755 /etc/rc.local
>>
>> 5. Check if the speakup_soft module is set to load at boot.
>
> It wasn't right now but I went ahead and added it to /etc/modules
> which is what debian uses.  Debian is extremely closely related
> to ubuntu.
>>
>> On my ubuntu, there is a file: /etc/modules-load.d/modules.conf which
>> contains a line:
>>
>> speakup_soft
>>
>> I wou;ld suggest that, if you have such a file, you add the line to it if
>> it is not there. If your distro has another way of specifying modules to
>> load at boot time, use that.
>>
>> If all else fails you can add the line to your /etc/rc.local.
>>
>> 5. Try rebooting and see if you still have speech.
>> HTH, Willem
>
> 	I imagine the rest will work as soon as I get rid of what
> is left of the old espeakup.
>
> 	I am familiar with /etc/modules from when I couldn't
> predict which sound card would be card 0 or card 1. That is what
> udev sorts out but the order of the sound devices was different
> about 50% of the time until I loaded the module for the on-board
> sound card from /etc/modules and after that, the system was as
> steady as a rock.
>
> Martin
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