[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. -- I believe the Bible to be the very Word of God: http://Mielke.cc/bible/ Dave Mielke | 2213 Fox Crescent | WebHome: http://Mielke.cc/ EMail: [email protected] | Ottawa, Ontario | Twitter: @Dave_Mielke Phone: 1-613-726-0014 | Canada K2A 1H7 | _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] For general information, go to: http://brltty.com/mailman/listinfo/brltty
