[BRLTTY] Russian and Hebrew with BRLTTY

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Ollie on 2008/12/13 at 16:51 +0100]

>Ok, ok... You've convinced me!
>I love challenges!

There are notes on how to do it on brltty's web site.

   Go to: http://mielke.cc/brltty/
   Click on: Download
   Click on: The Development Repository

The only really tricky part is deciding if you want to keep Ubuntu's brltty as 
a backup or if you want to replace it. If you're new at this kind of stuff then 
you may wish to keep Ubuntu's copy since you know that you can always go back 
to it. That means that you need to decide where to install the brltty that you 
build.

I don't use Ubuntu myself so I'm not sure if it offers a convenient place for 
such things or not. Perhaps a Ubuntu person on this list can offer some advice 
here. Let's assume, though, for example purposes, that you decide on 
/opt/brltty. Then, when you get to the ./configure step, specify that location 
via its --prefix= option. Like this:

   ./configure --prefix=/opt/brltty

If you don't like lots of usually meaningless output then I'd recommend using 
configure's --quiet option and make's -s option.

After brltty has been installed as described above, its configuration file will 
be /opt/brltty/etc/brltty.conf, and its main executable will be 
/opt/brltty/bin/brltty. In other words, all files pertaining to the install 
will be under /opt/brltty.

You'll want to stop the current brltty before starting the newly installed one 
else confusion might result as both try to access your braille display at the 
same time. You can stop brltty with the killall command. For example:

   killall brltty

That should be enough to get you going. Once you do, I'm sure you'll have more 
questions. Please dn't hesitate to ask.

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