Re: [orca-list] Installing ESpeak for use with Gnome-speech inOpenSuSE 11.

["Darragh" <lists digitaldarragh com>]

Hay Georgina,

Yast from my experience gets a bit cranky when you use the --force switch when installing RPM's but usually 
correcting it with --fixdb does the job. 

> From my unfortunate but very lengthy experience installing source packages in OpenSuSE, Yast never minds at 
> all.  In fact, it makes it easier than some distributions.  Take Gnome-Speech.  The -devel package for this 
> will install a lot of the dependencies for you. 

Certainly before OpenSuSE 10.3 you couldn't use a fedora RPM as it was still using /opt for a lot of the 
shared library stuff but it's started to move more and more toward convention with 10.3 and 11.   So who 
knows, I might try that at some stage. We may actually be lucky with this distribution for a change. 

OH. I actually forgot something in those instructions.  Rpm -e to remove gnome-speech.  I did it while 
setting it up on my system but forgot to write it down.  I've added it to the instructions written on 
digitaldarragh.com

Thanks for the feedback. 


Darragh
www.digitaldarragh.com  


-----Original Message-----
From: Georgina Joyce [mailto:gena mga demon co uk] 
Sent: 23 July 2008 22:01
To: Darragh
Cc: orca-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Installing ESpeak for use with Gnome-speech inOpenSuSE 11.

Hi

Thanks for this.  What concerns me is taking things outside of yast, my
understanding was that yast can get really confused by this kind of
activity.  What can be done with .rpm's?  What if someone tried using
Fedora rpm's?  Isn't the original gnome-speech crushed by this set of
instructions?

Thanks
On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 14:36 +0100, Darragh wrote:
> Good morning / afternoon.
>
> Someone asked about getting ESpeak working in OpenSuSE 11 recently so
> this morning I decided to give it a go.
>
> Here are the instructions.  Note, a more comprehensive explination is
> on my website at:
> http://www.digitaldarragh.com/2008/07/23/InstallingEspeakInOpenSuSE11ForUseWithGnomeSpeech.aspx
>
> wget
> http://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/espeak/espeak-1.37-source.zip
> yast -i make, autoconf gcc-c++ gnome-speech-devel portaudio 
> unzip espeak*
> cd /espeak*
> mkdir /usr/share/espeak-data
> cp espeak-data/* -rf /usr/share/espeak-data/
> cd src
> cp portaudio.h portaudio-backup.h
> cp portaudio19.h portaudio.h
> make
> cp libespeak.so.1.1.37 /usr/lib/
> cp speak_lib.h /usr/include/
> ldconfig
> ln -s /usr/lib/libespeak.so.1.1.37 /usr/lib/espeak.so
> cd
> wget
> ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gnome-speech/0.4/gnome-speech-0.4.19.tar.gz
> tar -xzvf gnome-speech*
> cd gnome-speech*
> ./configure.sh --with-espeak-dir=/usr/share/espeak-data/
> make
> make install
>
> Then just start Orca, go to the speech tab and under synthesizer,
> change to ESpeak.
>
> Let me know if I've forgotten anything.
>
> Darragh
> www.digitaldarragh.com
>
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