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

[Paul Scott]

Hello Samuel,

Thank you for your help. I think installing the brltty from Debian bookworm
would work for what I needed.

Thank you for your time,
Paul



On Sun, Jan 11, 2026 at 4:10 AM Samuel Thibault <
samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org> wrote:

> 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
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