You can find links to the googlecode pages for liblouis liblouisutdml and BrailleBlaster at http://www.abilitiessoft.com However, here are the commands for cloning liblouisutdml and BraileBlaster hg clone http://liblouisutdml.googlecode.com/hg/liblouisutdml hg clone http://brailleblaster.googlecode.com/hg/brailleblaster You can checkout liblouis from its repository on the googlecode page. Note that liblouis is in a svn repository, while liblouisutdml and BrailleBlaster are in Mercurial repositories. Build and install liblouis and liblouisutdml in the usual manner using Gnu autotools. You will also need Ant to compile the liblouisutdml Java bindings. Run Ant in the java subdirectory of liblouisutdml . This will produce the file liblouisutdml.jar in the same directory. Copy this file into brailleblaster/dist/lib Get the jar files that go in brailleblaster/dist/lib from http://www.brailleblaster.org , the for developers page. You will have to find the 32-bit Linux SWT jar file on the Eclipse site. Rename it to swt.jar and place it in brailleblaster/dist/lib Copy liblouis.so and liblouisutdml.so from /usr/local/lib into brailleblaster/dist/native/lib Run Ant in the brailleblaster directory. this will give you brailleblaster.jar in the dist subdirectory. The command java -jar brailleblaster.jar In this directory should now run the program. Thanks, John On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 02:05:13PM -0500, kendell clark wrote: > sure, I don't mind building from source. I do it all the time with > espeak. WHat packages do I need to checkout and build the brailleblaster > packages? I seem to remember it's in a mercurial repository, but don't > recall anything beyond that. > Thanks > Kendell clark > On 05/12/2012 12:57 AM, John J. Boyer wrote: > >Hi Kendell, > > > >We definitely need a 32-bit version of BrailleBlaster. One thing I'm > >still trying to find is the 32-bit Linux SWT jar. Once we have that, you > >can help if you feel comfortable using Gnu autotools and building from > >repositories. > > > >Thanks, > >John > > > >On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 11:47:47PM -0500, kendell clark wrote: > >>Hi > >>I've been trying to download and test braille blaster to provide > >>feedback with orca. On http://www.brailleblaster.org, there's a 64 bit > >>linux build of brailleblaster 1.0.3, but no 32 bit build? I'm running > >>the 32 bit version of ubuntu precise, and I tried running the 64 bit > >>version, only to have it fail because it said it couldn't run 64 bit > >>code on a 32 bit os, which makes sense. Is there any way someone could > >>upload a 32 bit build so I can use it? Is v1.0.3 even the newest > >>version released other then development snapshots? > >>Thanks > >>Kendell clark > >> > -- John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer Abilitiessoft, Inc. http://www.abilitiessoft.com Madison, Wisconsin USA Developing software for people with disabilities