it is all good now. Now I run debian unstable and it downloads the most up to date things around On Saturday 13 December 2003 10:32 am, Nathan England said: ~ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- ~ Hash: SHA1 ~ ~ 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. ~ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- ~ Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) ~ ~ iD8DBQE/200rnIZkEnRTrK0RAhMRAKCAeNwOG4zyOxqX14oXOWUfu0WsXwCaAiJW ~ lUaBFUDQW6GwB8OPAC5tRe0= ~ =iD10 ~ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ~ ~ --------------------------------------------------- ~ PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us ~ To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: ~ http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss ~ -- <:-)~MIKE~(-:> This message has been scanned for viruses by the VEI Internet Automatic Email Spam and Virus Scanner, and is believed to be free of spam or viruses. Please report spam to spamtrap@vei.net. If you would like 98.9 % spam blocked from your E-mail then go to VEI Internet for details. Anti-spam/Anti-virus is FREE with every account. http://www.vei.net/ mailtospamtrap@vei.net