Hi Andrew,
First thing is that there are problems with latest Orca and some fe parts of the unity desktop. That is why
there is no version newer than 3.18
avaiilable for Vinux at the moment. Vinux generally has the latest Orca version that is considered stable and
reliable that can be installed on it.,
i.e. Vinux4 could not run Orca newer than 3.4.x because dependencies could not be updated. Vinux5 and the
Ubuntu accessiblity ppa will get new orca
versions as soon as a fix is implemented to the issues that exist with orca not speaking in parts of the dash
and launcher as well I think.
I was willing to live with the accessiblity issues mentioned here to test some new orca functionality on
Vinux, but I also ran in to one of the
dependency problems you write about.
There is no newer article that I am aware of regarding building orca from source, but anyone can register and
edit the existing wiki...
My advice is to wait until the Ubuntu specific issues are resolved, or at least worked around and then
install the latest .deb in Vinux repos, or build
master from source if you want to test on the cutting, and very ocasionally bleeding edge.
At-spi and at-spi2 are not the same, not sure when/where the old at-spi is still used.
I would suggest joining the Vinux list and asking about the various dependency issues there. I started
investigating this a few months ago, but decided
to wait for fixes to the dash accessiblity issue before updating my orca past 3.18, at lest for now. I have
anh Arch-linux box where I almost always run
latest Orca master, so for me that is good enough to test new features and generally see what is going on
with orca development. Arch makes it much
easier to do this kind of thing as it is a rolling release, and dependencys are usually updateed as fast as
the packages that depend on them, and if
there is a lag, it's usuallly just a matter of a few hours, or at most days till deps catch up.
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B.H.
Registerd Linux User 521886
Andrew Hart wrote:
Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 02:49:21PM -0300
Hi there. I thought I'd give building Orca from source a burl. I have a number of questions and am running into a bit of trouble here and there. Googling around, I found the Orca Wiki with some download and installation instructions here: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Orca/DownloadInstall but they seem to be really out of date. My questions are: 1. Are there more up-to-date instructions available anywhere? If the answer is yes, then there's probably no need to bother with my remaining questions. Now, I've grabbed atk, at-spi and orca from their respective git repos. I have checked out the gnome-3-20 branches of each, since that is apparently the stable version of orca at the moment, which is newer than the 3.18 version I'm running now. I figured I'd try the stable release before attempting the bleeding edge. 2. Is it necessary to build atk and at-spi nowadays in order to build orca? If not, please ignore the following questions. 3. Attempting to build atk with ./autogen --prefix=/usr, I'm told I need gettext-0.19. I have gettext-0.18, but it seems Vinux perhaps doesn't have a package repo with that version of gettext. Where can i get that? 4. It appears my system has something called at-spi2-core on it with an at-spi2-registryd in /usr/lib/at-spi2-core. However, I managed to get at-spi from git.gnome.org. at-spi has branches for up to gnome-3-20, so what's the relationship between at-spi and at-spi2? Undoubtedly, my issues are all down to using outdated build instructions. Thanks heaps in advance, Andrew. _______________________________________________ orca-list mailing list orca-list gnome org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list Orca wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Orca Orca documentation: https://help.gnome.org/users/orca/stable/ GNOME Universal Access guide: https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/a11y.html Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org
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