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Quote:

Originally Posted by ardvark71 (Post 5448991)

Hi Gregg...

How about "espeak-gui"?

Code:

sudo apt-get install espeak-gui

Regards...

Yeah yeah, that's what I had, ardvark.

When I ran your command I got this:

Code:

gregory@OptiPlex-170L:~/Desktop$ sudo apt-get install espeak-gui

[sudo] password for gregory: 

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree      

Reading state information... Done

Package espeak-gui is not available, but is referred to by another package.

This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or

is only available from another source



E: Package 'espeak-gui' has no installation candidate

gregory@OptiPlex-170L:~/Desktop$

Then I went to the Ubuntu Software Center and they had it! (see 91)
But then when I clicked "more info" I got this: (see 92)

But that's it. I recognized the logo.

Any more ideas? (We know it's out there!) Thanks!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gregg Bell (Post 5448992)

Any more ideas?

Yes, download and install the .deb file here (for 32 bit) or here (for 64 bit.) :)

EDIT: I just realized they are both the same file. If you get any dependency errors, you can find the required packages here, (64 bit here.) ;)

Regards...

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gregg Bell (Post 5448992)

Yeah yeah, that's what I had, ardvark.

When I ran your command I got this:

Code:

gregory@OptiPlex-170L:~/Desktop$ sudo apt-get install espeak-gui

[sudo] password for gregory: 

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree      

Reading state information... Done

Package espeak-gui is not available, but is referred to by another package.

This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or

is only available from another source



E: Package 'espeak-gui' has no installation candidate

gregory@OptiPlex-170L:~/Desktop$

Which version of Ubuntu are you using? As it seems espeak-gui is not available in 15.10 anymore. When looking at their code-repository last changes were made end of 2013, so it may be that the project just has been abandoned.

Quote:

Originally Posted by TobiSGD (Post 5449037)

Which version of Ubuntu are you using? As it seems espeak-gui is not available in 15.10 anymore.

Hi...

According to the pages I linked to in my previous posts, the espeak-gui packages should work in 15.10. Please see here and here. ;)

Regards...

Quote:

Originally Posted by ardvark71 (Post 5448994)

Ha ha. That did it, Ardvark! Thanks! I did the 32 bit file and it worked fine. I didn't need the dependencies. Works perfectly!

Quote:

Originally Posted by TobiSGD (Post 5449037)

Thanks Tobi. I'm using Xubuntu 15.10 and I've got two 32 bit computers. On the first one the Ubuntu Software Center showed the espeak entry but when I clicked on "more info" it gave me a window that said it wasn't available. I didn't check the second one. I just downloaded the file ardvark gave me and was able to get it that way. It works fine.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gregg Bell (Post 5449472)

Ha ha. That did it, Ardvark! Thanks! I did the 32 bit file and it worked fine. I didn't need the dependencies. Works perfectly!

Rockin' sauce!! Glad you got this all squared away! Time to celebrate! :)

Quote:

Originally Posted by ardvark71 (Post 5449487)

Rockin' sauce!! Glad you got this all squared away! Time to celebrate! :)

Ha ha. Thanks buddy!