[Xastir] festival problems

John Place jplace at sc.rr.com
Wed Jan 21 10:28:35 EST 2004


Yep! That's where I downloaded to begin with and started having 
problems. That's where I try to get all my RPM's.


Brian D Heaton wrote:

>John,
>
>	Have you checked http://www.rpmfind.net ?  They should have the latest
>Mandrake packages in the index.
>
>			THX/BDH
>
>
>
>
>On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 03:53, John Place wrote:
>  
>
>>I tried what Curt suggested in his post. Didn't work. Come to find out 
>>Mandrake has the new RPM's on their web site but what you to pay for 
>>download. of the correct rpm's. So much for open source.
>>I guess I will put the sound on hold for now. Don't really need it. 
>>Unless one of the built in programs will work that come with the 
>>download version of Mandrake 9.2.
>>
>>
>>John Bennett wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>Sounds like the rpms are not for the same release of festival. What
>>>flavor of OS are you using? Might be the rpm was intended for a
>>>different OS than what you are using. If you're running RH9, it's in the
>>>release. Not sure which CD, but #1 keeps popping up in my head. Keep in
>>>mind that with RH, the devel packages may not necessarily be on the same
>>>disk as the binaries. Failing all that, might want to try installing
>>>      
>>>
>>>from the tarball.
>>    
>>
>>>Of common interest to the group, I've attached the startup script I
>>>worked up for festival. This works in RH9 and is compatible with
>>>chkconfig. Should be compatible with other flavors of Linux, but you
>>>might need to tweak it a bit depending on where the binary resides.
>>>Although it's short, it is in tar format. Had problems forwarding
>>>scripts "as is" through emails to a friend of mine (however, I believe
>>>he is using a MS client on XP). Hopefully this will keep the email
>>>client from messing with it.
>>>
>>>73,
>>>John Bennett
>>>n4xi
>>>
>>>On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 05:00, John Place wrote:
>>> 
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>Have been trying to get Festival installed here. Have tried different 
>>>>releases of RPM's and still get the error:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Some package requested cannot be installed:
>>>>festival-devel-1.4.2-19.i386 (due to unsatisfied festival[== 1.4.2])
>>>>do you agree ?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Suggestions would be appreciated. Also get the error when installing 
>>>>festival voice.
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>John Bennett
>>>Evansville, IN
>>>Home: jabennett at insightbb.com (Ph 812-491-0903)
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>>>
>>>
>>> 
>>>
>>>      
>>>

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