espeakup fails to install
Debian buster. I have had an ongoing issue with espeakup loosing speech.
I removed the package with a view to reinstalling but
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espeakup
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Preparing to unpack .../espeakup_1%3a0.80-10_i386.deb ...
Unpacking espeakup (1:0.80-10) ...
Setting up espeakup (1:0.80-10) ...
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/sound.target.wants/espeakup.service
→ /lib/systemd/system/espeakup.service.
update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported;
falling back to defaults
Job for espeakup.service failed because the control process exited with
error code.
See "systemctl status espeakup.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
invoke-rc.d: initscript espeakup, action "start" failed.
● espeakup.service - Software speech output for Speakup
Loaded: loaded
(#]8;;file://debian/lib/systemd/system/espeakup.service#/lib/systemd/system/espeakup.service#]8;;#;
enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: activating (auto-restart) (Result: exit-code) since Sun
2018-10-14 16:36:24 BST; 39ms ago
Docs: #]8;;man:espeakup(8)#man:espeakup(8)#]8;;#
Process: 5156 ExecStart=/usr/bin/espeakup -V ${VOICE}
#[0;1;31m(code=exited, status=2)#[0m
Oct 14 16:36:24 debian systemd[1]: #[0;1;31m#[0;1;39m#[0;1;31mFailed to
start Software speech output for Speakup.#[0m
dpkg: error processing package espeakup (--configure):
installed espeakup package post-installation script subprocess
returned error exit status 1
Processing triggers for systemd (239-10) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.4-2+b1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
espeakup
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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