[BRLTTY] Brltty 6 and Centos 7

[Adrian van Bloois]

Hi Keith,
I only have espeak and espeak-devel installed, no espeak-ng-devel.
And the same goes for libvoxin-devel, I have NOT installed it.
Stil I'm wokring with brltty-6.0 right now.


On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 01:56:56PM -0600, Keith Wessel wrote:
> And I've already hit a stumbling block for the srpm route, too. It wants
> libvoxin-devel and espeak-ng-devel, neither of which I'm finding RPMs for in
> the repos I have configured. Google didn't turn up much in the way of RPMs,
> either.
> 
> Adrian or others, how did you get past these? Or did you just remove these
> components from the build spec?
> 
> Thanks,
> Keith
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Wessel <kwessel76 at gmail.com> On Behalf Of Keith Wessel
> Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2019 1:13 PM
> To: 'Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY.'
> <brltty at brltty.app>
> Subject: RE: [BRLTTY] Brltty 6 and Centos 7
> 
> Hi, Adrian,
> 
> Thanks for confirming that I could build the SRPMs on Centos 7. I figured
> that would work, and I was keeping this in mind as plan B but thought I
> would first ask about the binary RPMs: what distro they were in fact
> intended for and if there's a way to get them working on Centos 7. Given the
> glibc version, I assumed no but figured it couldn't hurt to ask.
> 
> Keith
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: BRLTTY <brltty-bounces at brltty.app> On Behalf Of Adrian van Bloois
> Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2019 12:04 PM
> To: Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY.
> <brltty at brltty.app>
> Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] Brltty 6 and Centos 7
> 
> Hi Keith,
> gI run CentOS 7.6 myself, I took the source of brltty 6.0 and compiled it
> myself without any problems.
> 
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 10:47:02AM -0600, Keith Wessel wrote:
> > Hi, Dave and crew,
> > 
> > I was hoping to build or install Brltty 6 on my Centos 7 system. I grabbed
> > the main RPM (brltty main package, binary 64-bit RPM) and did a --test
> > --upgrade to see what it might need. It looks like, among other things, it
> > wants glibc 2.27. The current Centos 7.5 latest version of glibc is 2.17.
> > 
> > Were these RPMs intended for Fedora? I know the download page mentions
> both
> > Fedora and Redhat, but I'm wondering if that text is more geared toward
> the
> > RPM format rather than the specific packages. Or is there a way to get
> these
> > RPMs to install on Centos 7?
> > 
> > I'm happy to build from source RPM again but would love to skip that step
> if
> > there's a way on my current OS to use the binary packages.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Keith
> > 
> > 
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