All(most) linux distro's have been using a package manager for a very long time. Installing software outside of the package manager fucks up the system. Even if you have different needs than the packager, you can still use a package if you recompile it. On my debian testing system I have these hits on festival (I doubt it will be much different on other distros):
$>apt-cache search festival
eflite - Festival-Lite based emacspeak speech server
festival - general multi-lingual speech synthesis system
festival-dev - development kit for the Festival speech synthesis system
festival-doc - Documentation for Festival
festival-freebsoft-utils - Festival extensions and utilities
festlex-cmu - CMU dictionary for Festival
festlex-poslex - Part of speech lexicons and ngram from English
festvox-kallpc16k - American English male speaker for festival, 16khz sample rate
festvox-kallpc8k - American English male speaker for festival, 8khz sample rate
festvox-kdlpc16k - American English male speaker for festival, 16khz sample rate
festvox-kdlpc8k - American English male speaker for festival, 8khz sample rate
So the advice is simple: use your distro's package manager. But that leaves less page filler for the author, so we'll keep seeing this<nobr> <wbr></nobr>./configure make make install advice some more probably.
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Posted by: JelleB on June 22, 2005 12:55 AM$>apt-cache search festival
eflite - Festival-Lite based emacspeak speech server
festival - general multi-lingual speech synthesis system
festival-dev - development kit for the Festival speech synthesis system
festival-doc - Documentation for Festival
festival-freebsoft-utils - Festival extensions and utilities
festlex-cmu - CMU dictionary for Festival
festlex-poslex - Part of speech lexicons and ngram from English
festvox-kallpc16k - American English male speaker for festival, 16khz sample rate
festvox-kallpc8k - American English male speaker for festival, 8khz sample rate
festvox-kdlpc16k - American English male speaker for festival, 16khz sample rate
festvox-kdlpc8k - American English male speaker for festival, 8khz sample rate
So the advice is simple: use your distro's package manager. But that leaves less page filler for the author, so we'll keep seeing this<nobr> <wbr></nobr>./configure make make install advice some more probably.
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