[brailleblaster] Re: BrailleBlaster under Linux
- From: "Vic Beckley" <vic.beckley3@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 00:37:11 -0400
John,
First of all, welcome back. I hope your week away was enjoyable.
No I haven't gotten around to trying to build under Ubuntu yet. If the
errors are significant, I can get them for you. I will probably wait until I
build the latest.
I installed Vinux 4. This was really easy with speech. I don't know if
Braille would have worked or not. The live DVD came up talking and asked me
if I wanted to install or run from the DVD. The whole install was very
simple. Orca is working great. This is the easiest version of Linux I have
ever played with. I now have Mercurial and Subversion installed and am
probably going to try to build liblouis and liblouisutdml later today. The
*.so files are the ones that correspond to the *.dll files in Windows,
right?
More to come later!
Best regards from Ohio,
Vic
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Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2013 8:29 PM
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Subject: [brailleblaster] Re: BrailleBlaster under Linux
Vic,
Have you been able to build liblouis and liblouisutdml from the
repositories on this system, so as to get the latest fixes? What errors
are you getting? I want to run BrailleBlaster on Linux also. I have
Ubuntu12.04, which was recommended on other mailing lists, but I can't
get Orca to work. I'll have to have my sighted computer tech to look at
the screen while I try the things I have been told should get it
started.
John
On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 04:58:57AM -0400, Vic Beckley wrote:
> I now have an x64 Vinux 4 system up and running well. Vinux 4 is based on
> Ubuntu 12.04.
>
> I have downloaded the x64 version of BrailleBlaster that is on the
website.
> When I run it with the normal "java -jar brailleblaster.jar" command in
the
> terminal window, BB comes up. However, when I do anything I get a fatal
> error of some kind. I don't think they are always the same. I installed
the
> openjdk-7-jre-headless package. That is Java 7.0 update 21. It didn't
> specify whether it was x64 or x86. I assume apt-get knows what to install.
> Is BB supposed to run on this setup? If so, is there anything else I need
to
> do to configure the system?
>
> Is BB NewDesign supposed to work on Linux? I am going to try to build
> everything in this environment. Any quick hints would be appreciated.
>
>
> Best regards from Ohio,
>
> Vic
>
>
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John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer
Abilitiessoft, Inc.
http://www.abilitiessoft.com
Madison, Wisconsin USA
Developing software for people with disabilities
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