Re: [orca-list] Accessible linux system for a MacOS user

[Francisco Tissera <audiogamer2004 gmail com>]

Hi there.

For orca, credits to Milton, here are the instruction.

I’ll include the entire message, cause you might get something out of it, just as I did.

Beginning of message

 

Hi Francisco,

 

 

I use Ubuntu 20.04 (LTS, Long Term Support) with Orca master. For my daily work I use Firefox, Thunderbird, LibreOffice Writer and Calc, LIOS, Pluma, Gedit. In the terminal I use daisyplayer, ebook-speaker, translate-shell.

 

 

To get Orca master I copy a while ago on this mailinglist the following instructions:

 

 

1. Enable the Canonical repositories.

* Open software updater.

* Click the Ubuntu tab.

* Check the box source repositories.

* Click the other software tab.

* Check the boxes next to Canonical partners and Canonical partners source repositories.

* Click close.

* When requested, click reload cache.

 

2. Open a terminal window, press Alt+Control+T.

 

3. Install git, type or copy and paste the following command and press Enter.

sudo apt-get install git

 

4. Install build dependencies. Type or copy and paste the following command and press Enter.

sudo apt-get build-dep gnome-orca

 

* Answer yes to the ‘do you want to continue?’ prompt.

 

5. Get the orca source code. Type or copy and paste the following command and press Enter.

git clone https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/orca.git

 

6. Build and install orca.

!!WARNING!!

Follow the steps below exactly as typed. Doing something else will mess up your environment and cause file permission problems.

* Change to your orca repository created in step 5. Type the following and press Enter:

cd orca

 

* Configure orca source. Type the following command and press Enter.:

./autogen.sh

 

* build orca. Type the following command and press Enter.:

make

 

* Install the built binaries. Type or copy and paste the following command and press Enter:

sudo make install

 

7. When install is complete, restart the system.

 

After you can keep up with Orca master by executing the following commands in a terminal:

* first change to the orca folder

cd orca

* look for updates

git pull

* to see what changes are made

git log

* to update

./autogen.sh

make

sudo make install

 

Success.

 

End message

 

Best regards.

Francisco

 

From: Vsevolod Popov
Sent: Friday, February 12, 2021 12:55 PM
To: Francisco Tissera; orca-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Accessible linux system for a MacOS user

 

Hello,

Thank you for your answer.

You told that the tweeking using gitHub is needed.

Do I understand correctly that I need to get the latest orca by myself or there is a repo that contains it?

12.02.2021 14:49, Francisco Tissera пишет:

Hi there.

If you install ubuntu 20.10, with a little tweeking via GitHub, you can clone both Orca and brltty.

Ubuntu mate, or the mate desktop environment is what I personally use, and I recommend it, cause it’s similar to a windows environment.

 

Best regards.

Francisco.

From: Vsevolod Popov via orca-list
Sent: Friday, February 12, 2021 12:10 PM
To: orca-list gnome org
Subject: [orca-list] Accessible linux system for a MacOS user

 

Hello everyone,

So,

I am a beginner in linux, but i work a lot with the MacOS and windows, recently with macOS.

I use terminal a lot, so I don’t think that using a linux system will be a big issue for me.

Question:

What Linux operating system can you recommend according to these things?

I know that it is better not to use ubuntu and debian because the accessibility services such as Orca have an old version there and it is not recommended to use it because of that.

The same thing is with Debian as far as I understand.

I don’t have any issues with windows and MacOS screen readers.

So what linux destributive can you recommend that has a new orca installed and it is better to start with?

Thank you in advance.

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Best regards,

Vsevolod

sevapopov13 gmail com

 

 

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Best regards,

Vsevolod