[BRLTTY] brailliant info needed

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Brian Tew on 2017/11/14 at 05:34 -0600]

>How do I upgrade to 5.5, and will that interfere with ubuntu's normal upgrading process or cause me other grief?

You have two choices:

One choice is to convince your system to install a newer release of brltty from 
a newer release of Ubuntu (or, I assume, a later release of Debian than your 
current release of Ubuntu is based on). Since I myself don't use Ubuntu or 
Debian, someone who's familiar with them will have to advise on how to do that.

The other choice is to build brltty for youself. To avoid conflicts with your 
current brltty package, the best way to do this is to protect yourself in a 
couple of ways. The first is to install brltty into a directory that you know 
is your own (e.g. /usr/local/brltty-5.5). The other is to make this directory 
be owned by yourself (or some special account for building brltty). The idea is 
to be able to build brltty without becoming root first, so that there's no way 
that you can damage Ubuntu's brltty installation. You'd then configure brltty 
with --prefix= that directory.

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