Re: error when starting Festival
Mario Lang <mlang@debian.org> writes:
> Nath <nath.ml@free.fr> writes:
>
>> i try to run Festival on a debian testing/unstable. I installed the
>> festival package and its dependencies. I installed two voices packages
>> too but when I start Festival as root or as a normal user by invoking
>> the festival binary I obtain an error saying that no voices are
>> installed or the voice-path is wrong. It seems the voices are searched
>> in /usr/lib/festival/voices. so my question :
>>
>> Have you succeeded in running festival from testing and if yes have you
>> made changes for the voice-path and how to make these changes ?
>
> I did not try festival in testing, but according to the relevant
> bug report, the problem is related to the fact that paths have changed
> with the new festival upload, which puts stuff in /usr/share/festival
> now. The problem seems to be that some dependencies are not
> quite right yet.
>
Yes true, I have a /usr/share/festival/voices directory !
>> It seems a bug as been reported for this problem but I don't see a
>> solution.
> I guess you are refering to
> <URL:http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=199225>
>
> This bugreport explains what is wrong. A solution
> is also mentioned, either get festival from unstable, or
> from the festival maintainers private apt repository.
>
Yes it's this bug report I mentionned ! Sorry but when I found this bug
report, its contains was not displayed on my screen. today I can read
all the contain without trouble !
> (BTW, it would have been a bit easier to answer your
> questions if you had given: 1. a cut&paste copy of the error
> messages you are seeing, and 2. a link or at least the bug number
> of the bug report you were referring to)
>
Sorry, you're right ! The next time I will be more precise !
Thanks a lot for your help !
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