[BRLTTY] HIMS BrailleSense 6 scrolling issues on Debian 13, Ubuntu

[Samuel Thibault]

Hello,

Answering for the debian part.

Paul Scott, le sam. 10 janv. 2026 22:29:45 -0600, a ecrit:
> In a desperate attempt to stay on BRLTTY 6.5, I tried downloading the
> old .deb package from Debian’s archives, which predictably exploded into a mess
> of dependency errors.

Instead of just downloading the old .deb, add the old sources.list
entry:

deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm main

so that apt can pick-up old dependencies from there.

> When that failed, I tried a Frankenstein approach: I cloned the repo and tried
> to checkout the braille/hims folder from the 6.5 tag to compile it against the
> current source. As you might expect, I ran into several errors, including
> libpcre3 issues which I assume is because Debian 13 has moved on to newer
> libraries??.

Yes, libpcre3 was dropped.

Samuel