Re: [orca-list] updating orca question

[Krishnakant <hackingkk gmail com>]

hello,
Just to add, almost certainly you also need the right gnome version
which goes with the major version of orca.

While I experimented with mismatching the 2 and got away without any
problems, I don't think that it is recommended.

happy hacking.
Krishnakant.

On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 12:00 -0600, David E. Price wrote:
> Hi, Kyle, 
>  
> Definitely not a silly question. To start off with, if you want to
> stay up to date with the Orca branch, you should update your version
> of Orca at least every time Will Walker sends out a message to this
> list announcing a new version of that branch (that is, 2.24.x).  That
> is a minimum. However, if you want to get the new features sooner,
> then you can update more often, such as every week or two. On the
> other hand, I don't know how often updates to the 2.24 branch will
> occur in the future, given that 2.26 has just been released.  I don't
> believe that they make many, if any, changes to a branch once they
> have released a newer branch. I'm sure Will or someone else on the
> development team will correct me if that statement is incorrect.
>  
> As to the method you described, a lot of it is no longer needed if you
> have built from a branch before. For instance, if you have followed
> this process once before, you will not need to install gnome-common,
> automake, or svn again. Also, once you have removed gnome-orca using
> apt-get, you never need to do that again. As for the command:
>  
> sudo apt-get build-dep gnome-orca 
>  
> you shouldn't need to do that one again unless you have executed the
> following command:
>  
> sudo apt-get autoremove 
>  
> It won't hurt to run any of these commands a second time--the output
> will just tell you that everything is up-to-date or that gnome-orca
> isn't installed.
>  
> If you have built a branch from svn before, all you need to do is get
> into the directory where you downloaded the svn source files (in your
> case, it looks like ~/downloads/orca, then do the following:
>  
> svn up 
> ./autogen.sh 
> make 
> sudo make install 
>  
> The "svn up" command downloads any new files or changes to existing
> files from the svn repository. If there are no updates to download,
> you'll get a message saying something like "at revision 4641". If you
> get this message, you need go no further. The other three commands
> build and install Orca. 
>  
> Just for clarity, I should add one more thing.  If you had just
> continued using the gnome-orca package, you would have gotten the
> branch updates eventually. It takes some time between the release of a
> new version within the branch (those messages Will sends out) and the
> updates getting into the repositories for your version of Linux.
> Ubuntu has a reputation for doing this quickly, but I have no
> knowledge to back that up.
>  
> Hope this helps, 
>  
> dave 
>  
>  
> ----- Original Message ----- 
>         From: kyle 
>         To: orca-list gnome org 
>         Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 9:51 AM
>         Subject: [orca-list] updating orca question
>         
>         
>         Hi all sorry if this seems a silly question but I've been
>         using ubuntu8.10 for a while and when i first installed I
>         updated orca with the commands at the bottom of this message.
>         I was reading threw a site just now and it says to stay up to
>         date to do things a different way. so I'm wundering how do I
>         best stay up to date with my orca instalation? should I use
>          
>         http://live.gnome.org/Orca/DownloadInstall
>          
>         or
>         sudo apt-get build-dep gnome-orca 
>         
>         sudo apt-get install subversion gnome-common automake1.9
>         
>         mk dir downloads
>         cd downloads
>         svn co http://svn.gnome.org/svn/orca/branches/gnome-2-24 orca
>          
>         ./autojen.sh
>          
>         make
>          
>         sudo apt-get remove gnome-orca
>         yes u want to remove the old version because your instaling
>         the new one.
>          
>         sudo make install
>          
>         ault f2 for a new terminal and type "orca" which will close
>         and reopen orca.
>         
>          
>         I just want to stay on top of my updates to orca and ubuntu
>         itself. I regularly do apt-get update apt-get upgrade aptget
>         dist-upgrade but last I new orca wasn't encluded in any of the
>         packages or updates?
>         
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