log in as root

[Eugene Cormier]

Ray, why don't you just install it the Ubuntu way:
sudo apt-get install festival

it's much easier...

Eugene

raymond house wrote:
> Hi Brian, I downloaded Festival from the CSTR uk site recently but the 
> installation instructions come from FreeOS.com and they date from 2000 
> so I think that Festival is probably a newer version. Anyway I tried 
> your intructions and I get "command not found"  Ray
>
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Brian McKee <brian.mckee at gmail.com 
> <mailto:brian.mckee at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 6:45 AM, raymond house
>     <raymondh40 at gmail.com <mailto:raymondh40 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     > Hi, I am trying to get Festival, a text to speech program, up
>     and running
>     > and at one point I need to log in as root? how do I do that?  Ray
>
>     Hi Ray
>
>     You almost certainly don't have to log in as root - but you do need to
>     run some programs as root.
>     Sounds like the instructions you are following don't explain how to
>     use sudo instead of 'logging in' as root.
>
>     Rather than rewrite those instructions, do this - open a terminal and
>     type 'sudo -i'
>     Give it *your* password when it asks for one. That 'logs you in as
>     root' for as long as that terminal is open.
>
>     Alternatively, you could hit Alt+F2, then type 'gksu gnome-terminal'
>     in the run box.
>
>     HTH,
>     Brian
>
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