[BRLTTY] Trouble installing the latest version

Amanda Lacy lacy925 at gmail.com
Mon Jul 18 17:36:21 EDT 2016


> This is something I wouldn't know (or even have guessed) as I don't make the Debian packages.

Do you know who makes them?

On 7/18/16, Dave Mielke <dave at mielke.cc> wrote:
> [quoted lines by Amanda Lacy on 2016/07/18 at 16:18 -0500]
>
>>If either of these was true, the details were hidden from me. The only
>>difference I'm aware of is that before, I used apt-get install, ran
>>brltty (without sudo) and brltty worked. This time I did not use
>>apt-get install, and brltty doesn't start up properly unless I preface
>>the command with sudo.
>
> Perhaps, then, the package makes brltty set-uid root. This is something I
> wouldn't know (or even have guessed) as I don't make the Debian packages.
>
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