[Novalug] Ubuntu problems (2)

[Kevin Cole]

On 5/2/07, Bonnie Dalzell <bdalzell at qis.net> wrote:

> More serious - while flounderng around trying to solve the laptop problem
> - using I downloaded a wireless manager ap to my desktop via Synpatic
> which caused my desktop to loose its ability to connect to the internet.
> I tried doing a lot of things (including repair broken system) which only
> made everything worse. Mostly it made things worse because I did not want
> to do a 'clean install' but tried to install while leaving things on the
> partition. The automated install script ran into problems when it came to
> installing something called brltty-x11.

brltty = Braille TTY.  It's a driver for Braille terminals.  The X11 package
enhances brltty's capabilities, enabling some limited feedback from a
graphics environment.  If you installed any meta-accessibility packages,
that's probably what draws in brltty and brltty-x11.
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