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Am 12 Friday, December 2003 03:20 pm schrieb Michael Havens:

You need to download esound-0.2.7 or greater.
It should be pretty standard for Debian. apt-get install esound
Arts is installed, but not running in the background, so it couldn't test it.
You may try running the configure with an option like --disable-arts-test
or something.

> Okay. here is what is happening. I am trying to compile the latest of ayttm
> and it says that it is checking for this and checking for that and it
> usually answers 'yes' but sometime says 'no'. After it was done the thought
> came that the lines with the 'no' answer needed to be downloaded.
> Fortunately, as the lines were inspected it was seen that it was not the
> case. What especially blew the whistle was when I came to the line:
>
>      checking for ESD - version >= 0.2.7... no
>      *** The esd-config script installed by ESD could not be found
>      *** If ESD was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in
>      *** your path, or set the ESD_CONFIG environment variable to the
>      *** full path to esd-config.
>      checking for artsc-config... /usr/bin/artsc-config
>      checking for ARTS... automatic: ERROR executing arts_init(): can't
>      connect to aRts soundserver
>      no
>      *** Could not run ARTS test program, checking why...
>      *** The test program compiled, but did not run. This usually means
>      *** that the run-time linker is not finding ARTS or finding the wrong
>      *** version of ARTS. If it is not finding ARTS, you'll need to set
> your *** LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable, or edit /etc/ld.so.conf to
> point
>      *** to the installed location  Also, make sure you have run ldconfig
> if that
>      *** is required on your system
>      ***
>      *** If you have an old version installed, it is best to remove it,
>          although
>      *** you may also be able to get things to work by modifying
>          LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>
> So this must be how it alerts you to problems. Soooooooo, I googled here
> and I googled there in all search of elusive animal ESD - version >= 0.2.7.
> Yet it is no where to be found. I think this means I need to be able to do
> Debian unstable. Is this correct? If it is please tell me how  to enable
> this. Further, I would like to know (after this is enabled) that synaptic
> wouldbe able to do unstable. Well it is also desired to know if it would
> not.
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