installing speakup

[Jude DaShiell]

Can you get out to google.com successfully?  If not, for sure that'll make 
apt-get error out.



On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Daniel Dalton wrote:

> On 13/11/2007 3:38 AM, John Heim wrote:
>>  Do you require a custom kernel? It would be easier to download a kernel
>>  with speakup already compiled in. You can do that by going to
>
> OK. So I just get the kernel install it with apt and reboot? No messing with 
> bootloaders is required?
>
>>  http://people.debian.org/~shane/speakup/kernell/.
>
> The link didn't work for me?
>
>>
>>  If you are using debian linux, you can do this:
>
> I am on debian. etch. So will the following instructions still work for me?
> Also my kernel is version
> 2.6.18-5
>
>>
>>  1. Add the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list file:
>>
>>  deb http://people.debian.org/~shane/speakup/kernel ./
>
> Hmmm I get an error with apt-get update. Can you in close the line in 
> quotation marks?
>
>>
>>  2. At the linux command line, type
>>
>>  apt-get update
>
> When adding the following line and running apt-get update I get an error 
> about this line.
> "deb http://people.debian.org/~shane/speakup/kernel ./"
>
> I also tried
> "deb http://people.debian.org/~shane/speakup/kernel"
> With no luck.
> The error I get is:
> "http://people.debian.org/~shane/speakup/kernel/ is not known on line in 
> /etc/apt/sources.list"
> Any ideas?
> Or could I just download it to my system and install it manually?
> If so how?
>
> Thanks for your help. And if you could help me with this I would appreciate 
> it.
>
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