On Sun, 06 Feb 2011 09:38:52 -0500, "Bruce E. Harris" <[email protected]> wrote: > I just got the Telemetrum starter kit from Apogee and now trying to get > it to run. I am unclear on how/where to install the Linux packages. I am > running Kunbutu 10.10. I tried the Debian install, but got an errors:
Not surprising, since Ubuntu is a Debian derivative but not everything in Debian has made it into the various Ubuntu derivatives yet. > demigod@Behemoth:~$ sudo apt-get install altos > [sudo] password for demigod: > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have > requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable > distribution that some required packages have not yet been created > or been moved out of Incoming. > The following information may help to resolve the situation: > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > altos : Depends: freetts but it is not installable > E: Broken packages The freetts package is fairly new in Debian. Because it's entirely platform independent Java code, you should be able to download it from a Debian mirror, install it, and then our altos package should install ok. One location for the freetts package would be: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/f/freetts/freetts_1.2.2-3_all.deb > So I got > http://www.altusmetrum.org/AltOS/releases/0.9/Altos-Linux-0.9.tar.bz2 > > I unpacked and left in my home directory, limited luck, the moved it to > root. > ao-list does not work. Sound does not work. I get limited and unreliable > connectivity between TeleMetrum and TeleDongle. Well, ao-list is one of the first-general C commands. It still exists in the Debian package, but it's not really used any more with the second generation Java user interface. I'm not sure what the sound problem might be, offhand. > I am use to apt-get and installing from source, ./configure, make make > install. But this install has me baffled. If you want to build from source, you're welcome to fetch a clone of our git repository directly and build from there. You could also certainly download the source package associated with my Debian package build and build it on your system. But I suspect that once you install freetts the current package build will just work fine for you. For what it's worth, now that Debian squeeze is released, I hope to upload altos packages into the main Debian repository sometime soon. That should mean that they'll trickle in to the Ubuntu universe repository eventually, hopefully before the next stable release... Bdale
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