Re: [orca-list] updating Gnome 3 in Debian

[Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com>]

I do not recommend upgrading to Gnome 3.14 in Wheezy after having tried it myself. The reason is that it will 
break your speech dispatcher and your machine will not talk anymore due to a bug with autospawn. It was a 
nightmare! 

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> On Nov 14, 2014, at 10:14 AM, Vincenzo Rubano <vincenzo rubano studio unibo it> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> at university, we need to use Debian for a project. So, I installed it on a laptop to verify its 
> accessibility. However, I found out that Debian wheezy ships with Gnome 3.4.
>
> Since I’ve been told that between Gnome 3.4 and Gnome 3.14 there have been a lot of accessibility 
> enhancements, I’d like to upgrade the Gnome version installed in my Debian. Could you give me any advice on 
> the best way to proceed?
>
> I tried adding the Wheezy-backports repository to apt, but after entering in terminal
> apt-get -t wheezy-backports install gnome-shell
> or
> apt-get -t wheezy-backports install task-desktop
> apt-get me tells me that the packages are up to date.
>
> I tried adding the Vinux/Trusty PPA to apt-get, but when entering
> apt-get update
> and after that
> apt-get upgrade
> Debian informs me that it cannot find packages for Wheezy.
>
> I read about apt-pinning, but a lot of people discouraged me to do it to avoid problems with my machine.
>
> The last option I considered was installing Gnome after compiling it from source, but that’s an option I’d 
> like to avoid: I would prefer to install already compiled binaries from the package manager.
>
> Could you give me any advice, please? I don’t know what to do, but I need to absolutely upgrade Gnome 
> hoping that accessibility has been enhanced, since in my current setup it’s half a disaster!
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
> Vincenzo.
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