[BRLTTY] can u bail me out again?

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Brian Tew on 2018/03/23 at 09:42 -0500]

>I untarred 5.6 in /usr/local/brltty56 then did the four steps:
>autogen, config, make, make install, and all went well.

What options did you give configure? If you didn't give it any then you may 
have overwritten your installed 5.3.1.

You need to untar and build brltty somewhere else. Don't untar and build it in 
its intended install directory. When configuring, use --prefix= to specify the 
directory that you'd like to install it into.

You can't directly run brltty from within its build tree. To do that, you need 
to use the run-brltty wrapper script that's in the top-level directory of the 
build tree.

It doesn't mater which user you are when building, and even when installing, 
brltty. What matters is that you run it as root.

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