Re: method for getting speak and espeakup into a debian live image
To elaborate, what I have done (and seen other do) is:
- In the root of your build directory, create a directory named: hooks
- Create a file in the hooks folder. Mine is called stripped.hook.chroot
- mkdir hooks ; cd hooks
- touch stripped.hook.chroot
- Edit the new file, and add the following:
## stripped.hook.chroot
#!/bin/sh
set -e
# Download deb files to tmp dir
echo download espeakup
wget -nv -O /tmp/espeakup_deb_filename.deb
http://download.location.for.espeakup.deb
echo download speak
wget -nv -O /tmp/speak_deb_filename.deb
http://download.location.for.speak.deb
# Install debs
echo install espeakup
gdebi -n -q /tmp/espeakup_deb_filename.deb
echo install speak
gdebi -n -q /tmp/speak_deb_filename.deb
# Remove deb files
rm /tmp/espeakup_deb_filename.deb
rm /tmp/speak_deb_filename.deb
# End of stripped.hook.chroot
- Now create a symlink in build_dir/config/hooks:
- cd ../config/hooks ; ln -s ../../hooks/stripped.hook.chroot
0500-stripped.hook.chroot
What will this do? It will download the required files you want (espeakup
and speak) then us gdebi to install them in your chroot during the build
process, and then remove the deb files from your live chroot /tmp location.
I have used the same script to install chrome and some other apps that I
can’t use the traditional package-lists method. Good luck!
Stick with it - this is a very powerful and useful set of scripts. I have
only been using it for a bit now but have had a good time,solved some
issues, and learned a TON - and more learning is coming… :)
Again, good luck, and cheers!
-Zed
On 9/6/14, 10:20 PM, "Zed" <zed@lilypadmudlib.com> wrote:
>It may be some dependencies. I would suggest trying to use a custom hook
>that uses gdebi to install the debs - it will ensure that you have the
>needed dependencies.
>
>Zed
>
>On 9/6/14, 2:18 PM, "Don Raikes" <DON.RAIKES@ORACLE.COM> wrote:
>
>>I am working on a similar issue with a copy of kali linus (a derivative
>>of Debian).
>>
>>My configuration is at http://github.com/dr1861/drkali.git.
>>
>>I think I pulled the speakup stuff out of my configuration because it
>>caused the system to be unbootable, but I will put it back in within the
>>hour.
>>
>>Any pointers on how to get it working would be appreciated.
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Nick Gawronski [mailto:nick@nickgawronski.com]
>>Sent: Friday, September 05, 2014 5:30 PM
>>To: Zed
>>Cc: debian-live@lists.debian.org
>>Subject: Re: method for getting speak and espeakup into a debian live
>>image
>>
>>Hi, I have in my live directory the config directory and in that
>>directory
>>there is another directory called package-lists. In that directory there
>>is a file called live.list.chroot where it contains packages like the
>>live-boot and live-config. I just went to the end of the file and
>>entered
>>in espeakup and speak on different lines. To do the initial
>>configuration
>>as I am using the current build of debian live in testing I did lb init
>>then lb config then edited the file and finally did lb build. I got the
>>iso image and burned it to a disc in the usually way using wodim and no
>>speech. One suggestion is could there not be a meta package for live
>>building where if say speakup_soft was put in a package list all needed
>>components would be put into the image? Also, is there a way to stop the
>>build once the chroot is made to allow me to go into it and manually
>>configure things then restart it to finish the build process? Nick
>>Gawronski
>>On Fri, September 5, 2014 6:49 pm, Zed wrote:
>>> Where are you setting the packages to be installed? Do you have your
>>> config on github at all so we can check out your configuration?
>>>
>>> Without knowing how your live-build is configured it is hard to tell
>>> where the issue may be (for me anyway - I am a visual dude).
>>>
>>> If you don¹t have your config on github or something similar, can you
>>> post your auto/config contents and config/packate-lists/*
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Zed
>>>
>>>
>>> On 9/5/14, 3:40 PM, "Nick Gawronski" <nick@nickgawronski.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi, I am totally blind and am trying to build my own debian live disc
>>>> that includes the espeakup and speak packages for use with the speak
>>>>up
>>>> screen reader like is done in the debian-installer. I have added
>>>>those
>>>> packages to the package list and when running lb build those packages
>>>> are downloaded and put into the image but when I boot the system no
>>>> speech starts and I am not able to start espeakup using
>>>> /etc/init.d/espeakup
>>>> start either as the live user or using sudo. I have even tried using
>>>> the web builder and have not been emailed any links to the live rescue
>>>> images I built. What would I need to do to make sure speak and
>>>>espeakup
>>>> as well as alas are properly setup in the live build process or better
>>>> yet why not put speech into the automatically built rescue images on
>>>>the
>>>> live systems project and either speak a treating when the system
>>>>starts
>>>> up on how to start speech or have a boot option for starting software
>>>> speech? Nick Gawronski
>>>>
>>>>
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