[Xastir] festival problems

[John Bennett]

Below is the north american site where you can download the latest
festival tarball. Sounds like this may be your only option:

http://www.festvox.org/festival/

Festival is an excellent piece of work and believe it is well worth the
time and effort to build and install it.

73,
John Bennett,
n4xi

On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 02:53, 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
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