RE: Orca Installation problem

[Willem van der Walt <wvdwalt csir co za>]

Hi,
Standing in your downloads directory as the user is fine for doing the 
./configure&&make but
the make install must be done as root.  What I often do, is to change to 
root before I extract the file.
su -
then cd /home/willem/downloads
tar jxvf whatever.tar.bz2
cd whatever*
When at
the prompt again, do
./configure&&make&&make install
These commands extract the program and change to the extracted directory. 
Note you can type the name half way and then press the tab key to complete 
it.
./configure&&make&&make install says:
do the configure step and if that ran successfully, run the make step and 
if that also ran successfully run the make install
Usually, that is all you have to do, but for orca you then need to type 
exit to become a normal user again and then
create the .xinitrc file with the two lines:
orca&
gnome-session
Regards, Willem


On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Mike Wigle wrote:

> Okay, time for my newbieness to really shine. Where, exactly should I be
> doing my compiling and how do I as you put it " have orca install itself
>
> into /usr/local". I must admit that everything I've installed so far I
> have compiled under my downloads folder in under /home/mwigle/ and done
> the configure, make and make install from there hoping that it will work
> (which it frequently has to some extent or other). Where should I be
> extracting the software to build to and is that where the program
> actually installs too? I know this isn't what this forum is for really
> but I haven't found a good place to ask these questions yet. :P As a
> side note, I'm looking at doing another rebuild on my one linux test
> machine so when it comes time to reinstall al the add-on packages again
> it would be nice for this and everything else to be done correctly.
> Thanks again.
>
> Michael Wigle
> Computer Access Specialist
> Cincinnati Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired
> 2045 Gilbert Ave
> Cincinnati, OH 45202
> Phone: 513-487-4243
> Fax: 513-221-2995
> E-mail: mike wigle cincyblind org
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Luke Yelavich [mailto:themuso themuso com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 3:57 PM
> To: orca-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: Orca Installation problem
>
> On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 06:11:20AM EST, Mike Pedersen wrote:
> > Hello Michael,
> > > Orca 0.2.2 tar ball
> > > I didn't use any command options when I did the ./configure
> > > command because I've never used options with that command
> > > when compiling anything. I'm not sure what options to use or why.
> > This might be  your problem.  Your configure should look like
> ./configure
> > --prefix=/usr
>
> YOu really don't need to specify any options. I have orca install itself
>
> into /usr/local, as /usr is package managed, and should I need to
> change/remove orca files, I would rather have it installed somewhere
> where it won't get trod on/get in the way of other files. It is also
> easier to remove by hand then if something were to happen with my build
> source such that it couldn't remove anything.
> --
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