compiling

~
~ 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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