Making .voice files under VMWare

[bascule]

I have just got to grips with making voice files under Windows using all the VBScript stuff - all fine and dandy.

However, the Wiki description for Linux is much simpler:

mkdir build
cd build
../tools/configure
Follow the on-screen instructions, selecting your model and voice.
make voice

Now, if I try this under VMWare , I get the following:

You need Festival, eSpeak or Flite in your path to build voice files

If I try to apt-get them (apt-get install eSpeak) I get

E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13 Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?

So then I tried sudo, but apparently that's not available in VMWare, either...

Is this a 'path' problem, or are the packages not installed at all?

[obo]

Sounds like the packages aren't installed - su to root to apt-get install the packages, or login straight as root.