[BRLTTY] Focus 40 Blue and brltty 5.0

[Jason White]

John J. Boyer <john.boyer at abilitiessoft.com> wrote:
> yes, but suppoosing I install the latest release of brltty what hapens 
> if Ubuntu later updates to that release? Wouldn't there be a conflict 
> with the Ubuntu package?

It wouldn't if you installed it under /usr/local and reconfigured the init
system to start it instead of the packaged version.

The proper way to upgrade would be to rebuild the Ubuntu package for the
latest version, or obtain a more recent package that someone else has already
created.
The Debian package already includes the patch to fix the Freedom Scientific
driver as of 13 March 2014, BRLTTY 5.0-1. I would suggest checking the
changelog of the Ubuntu package. If the patch is already included, then your
experience suggests there's still a bug that needs to be fixed in the FS
driver.

sudo aptitude changelog brltty
should show you the recent updates.