Question about Speech-dispatcher

[Jan Buchal]

>>>>> "H" == Hermann  <meinelisten at onlinehome.de> writes:

    H> I had to compile SD from the source for my Ubuntu laptop, because
    H> SD 0.6.3tested always crashs when an updatedb was performed in
    H> the background. Getting the packages from the Hardy branch was
    H> not possible, because dpkg indicated, that various core packages
    H> were missing.
which packages you mean? 

    H> I succeeded in building and setting up SD 0.6.6, although it was
    H> a lot of work.
I use gutsy with speech-dispatcher from hardy. Another question is why
is not possible make speech dispatcher package for gutsy as backport.

    H> But one question remains: I had to add a user "speech-dispatcher"
    H> to my system by using the adduser command. This adds a regular
    H> user with password, homedir and all privileges of a common user.
    H> I think this isn't necessary for SD, but I don't know how to add
    H> a user with less privileges, a kind of shadow user that only
    H> exists by name. Is this possible, and if so, how can I perform
    H> this? Hermann
Yes sure, you can add a new user with different parameters. but I think
that best way is install from gutsy, then you can remove not purge this
package and speech-dispatcher user was created by dpkg so you can simply
install speech dispatcher from compiled version.


However, I think that correct way for Ubuntu/Debian or other
distribution is, make stable version of SD and snapshots version for
testing.

For Debian we will make it os. I think that next week will on freebsoft
site place for SD snapshots package for testing.

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