Re: [BRLTTY] 5.6

2018-04-05 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Brian Tew on 2018/04/05 at 18:46 -0500] >I sure did not realize a bad make file could trash the system. I will avoid >installing as root if possible. When you're logged in as root, any command will be allowed to blindly go ahead and do its thing. We all wish that everone who

Re: [BRLTTY] 5.6

2018-04-05 Thread Brian Tew
I sure did not realize a bad make file could trash the system. I will avoid installing as root if possible. I didn't even realize uninstalling 5.3.1 would remove the brltty.service file, sheesh. Perhaps you begin to discern the level of my ignorance. I will eventually go back and do things the

Re: [BRLTTY] 5.6

2018-04-05 Thread Mgr. Janusz Chmiel
Dear professionals, Let Me express you my deepest possible appreciation to this Brltty for Windows release. I would like to congratulate MR Tibault and others, who have released this amazing application. Yours deepest possible appreciation should be expressed thanks to very professional memory

Re: [BRLTTY] 5.6

2018-04-05 Thread John Covici
Remember that locate only changes once per day, so it may be obsolete by the time you were looking. Maybe be better to do a find instead. On Thu, 05 Apr 2018 08:50:59 -0400, Adrian van Bloois wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 05:16:26AM -0500, Brian Tew wrote: > > Or > > > > Could root just

Re: [BRLTTY] 5.6

2018-04-05 Thread 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

Re: [BRLTTY] 5.6

2018-04-05 Thread Adrian van Bloois
On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 05:16:26AM -0500, Brian Tew wrote: > Or > > Could root just mv brltty to /sbin ? Yes it could, but you will be stuck when you make the next upgrade. > > ___ > This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. > To post a

Re: [BRLTTY] 5.6

2018-04-05 Thread Adrian van Bloois
On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 05:12:26AM -0500, Brian Tew wrote: > Ok I think there is just one more hurdle. > I made the changes in /etc/default/brltty that John mentioned. > I apt-got purged 5.3.1 and recompiled 5.6 as root. > All went well, but when root tried to edit

[BRLTTY] 5.6

2018-04-05 Thread Brian Tew
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[BRLTTY] 5.6

2018-04-05 Thread Brian Tew
Ok I think there is just one more hurdle. I made the changes in /etc/default/brltty that John mentioned. I apt-got purged 5.3.1 and recompiled 5.6 as root. All went well, but when root tried to edit /lib/systemd/system/brltty.service it says no such file. locate brltty.service gives ten files,