Hello Samuel, Thank you for your help. I think installing the brltty from Debian bookworm would work for what I needed.
Thank you for your time, Paul On Sun, Jan 11, 2026 at 4:10 AM Samuel Thibault < [email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > Answering for the debian part. > > Paul Scott, le sam. 10 janv. 2026 22:29:45 -0600, a ecrit: > > In a desperate attempt to stay on BRLTTY 6.5, I tried downloading the > > old .deb package from Debian’s archives, which predictably exploded into > a mess > > of dependency errors. > > Instead of just downloading the old .deb, add the old sources.list > entry: > > deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm main > > so that apt can pick-up old dependencies from there. > > > When that failed, I tried a Frankenstein approach: I cloned the repo and > tried > > to checkout the braille/hims folder from the 6.5 tag to compile it > against the > > current source. As you might expect, I ran into several errors, including > > libpcre3 issues which I assume is because Debian 13 has moved on to newer > > libraries??. > > Yes, libpcre3 was dropped. > > Samuel > _______________________________________________ > This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. > To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] > For general information, go to: http://brltty.app/mailman/listinfo/brltty >
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