[BRLTTY] 5.6

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Brian Tew on 2018/04/05 at 05:12 -0500]

>I made the changes in /etc/default/brltty that John mentioned.

There was no need as brltty (albeit, the installed one) was running.

>I apt-got purged 5.3.1 

Well, I tried to advise to not do that.

>and recompiled 5.6 as root.

It's a bad practice to build as root. While we ourselves try very hard to 
ensure that our own make files can be trusted, the reason it's a bad idea is 
because you never really know what a make file will or won't do. If it's a bad 
make file then you could very easily ruin your system.

>All went well, but when root tried to edit /lib/systemd/system/brltty.service 
>it says no such file. 

Sure, because you unintalled it. My suggestion was to sinmply just edit it.

>locate brltty.service gives ten files, but root cannot 
>see any of thm. so I cannot change the execstart line. 

That doesn't matter since you removed it. I was trying to suggest an approach 
that'd keep things simple.

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