Re: Problem to get gnome-speech working

[Nath <nath ml free fr>]

Hi you,

Thx a lot for your advice, it works now after recompiling and
insstalling in /usr prefix. 

Best regards,


"Jacob Schmude" <jschmude adelphia net> writes:

>    Hi
>    Did you configure it with
>    --prefix=/usr
>    These packages must be installed into the prefix of your operating
>    system's gnome installation. This is why you're not seeing any
>    servers, here's a good set of options to pass to configure:
>    --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc
>    Yep, you need the sysconfig dir set to /etc, since that's where all
>    gnome's config files are kept--at least I needed to do this on
>    slackware and redhat with gnopernicus, or the gconf schema wasn't
>    installed properly.
>    HTH
>    P.S. I know it's a bit odd putting manually compiled software into the
>    /usr directory, but that's what needs to be done for gnome software,
>    or at the very least, for gnome-speech.
>    On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 04:45:18 +0100, Nath wrote:
>    >Hi all,
>    >
>    >In order to be able to run DECtalk with gnome-speech I desinstalled
>    the
>    >gnome-speech and gnopernicus packages which come with Debian and try
>    to
>    >install these two packages using the .tar.gz available at
>    ftp.gnome.org.
>    >My problem is that when I try to test gnome-speech using the
>    speech-test
>    >program, no speech servers are displayed. I don't understand because
>    >when I run the ./configure before compiling gnome-speech Festival and
>    >DECtalk were detected. In my /usr/local/bin directory I have the
>    >test-speech program but also the dectalk-synthesis-driver and
>    >festival-synthesis-driver executables. the gnome 2.4 executables are
>    in
>    >/usr/bin as gnome 2.4 has been installed using the Debian gnome 2.4
>    >packages.
>    >What am I missing ? what's wrong ? all ideas will be appreciated !

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Nath