Hi Mat, Please see my comments in the body of this mail. On Tuesday 01 April 2003 09:01, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote: > Hi all. > I am new to this list. > > i have the via voice rpms installed and working fine with emacspeak in the > text console. Now i wish to try out the gnome gnopernicus screen reader. > > Has anyone been sucsesful at installing and getting > the gnopernicus package with screen reader to work under rh 8? > last time i tried, it did not work. There is one problem that I know about on RedHat 8.0 distribution and it is a gnome-2.2 stack problem. I will describe this one to you so you would know if this is the one that you had and how to solve it. Description of a problem that appears in gnome-2.2 with gnopernicus (and other applications that have GUI, like gnome-media, for instance): The compiling is stoping with the following message: /usr/lib/libXft.so.2: undefined reference to `FT_Set_Hint_Flags' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[3]: *** [gnopernicus] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/csongor/work/work/CVS/Year2003/Month03/31_03_2003/cvs/gnopernicus/gnopi' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/csongor/work/work/CVS/Year2003/Month03/31_03_2003/cvs/gnopernicus/gnopi' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/csongor/work/work/CVS/Year2003/Month03/31_03_2003/cvs/gnopernicus' make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2 To solve this you have to erase the following libraries from your gnome-2.2 stack ( in our case this stack is installed in /opt/gnome-2.2) : /opt/gnome-2.2/lib/libfreetype.a /opt/gnome-2.2/lib/libfreetype.la /opt/gnome-2.2/lib/libfreetype.so /opt/gnome-2.2/lib/libfreetype.so.6 /opt/gnome-2.2/lib/libfreetype.so.6.3.1 /opt/gnome-2.2/include/freetype2 - the entire directory > Just wanting to get anyone's comments on getting this > to work and if there are any issues to be aware of. > > I have installed rh 8 from the CD set. that means that i have > gnome 2, but not gnome 2.2... will this be a problem? I did not test accessibility with gnome2 from distribution, so I can NOT guarantee you that the stack provided by Red Hat will work fine. I suggest you to get the gnome-2.2 stack. from : http://host131.cobalt.com/gap/Linux-builds/ (Download the stack from 28 March or 13 March - I suggest you to get the last one). After downloading it, you have to unpack it and put it, for instance, in /opt, so you will have the stack in /opt/gnome-2.2. Set the environment to point to that stack by typing: $ source go_gnome-2.2 go_gnome_2.2 being the script that I am attaching to this email. After this step just launch gnopernicus from command line : $ gnopenricus If you want to run gnome-2.2 desktop on your machine than you will have to set the environment before starting the X session. If you want to work with the latest version of gnopernicus, you have to understand that this module is under development and so are its dependencies. So, indeeed you have to checkout some modules from CVS, compile them and install them. (gail, atk, java-access-bridge, at-spi). For more information on gnopernicus building/installing please follow instructions on : http://www.baum.ro/gnopernicus.html If there are things that are not clear to you, please don't hesitate to ask me or the list questions. > > I installed everything from the cds. > I have not applied any updates yet. > so using kernel 2.4.18-14 at this stage but can go > to 2.4.18-27.8.0 if need be. > > Just downloaded the gnopernicus stuff from cvs and the > following dependencies. > at-spi > gconf > gnome-mag > gnome-speech > gnome-xml > gtk+ > gtk-doc > libglade > libgnome > libgnomeui > Is there anything else i will need this time around? > if i have any of these, will i really need to get the > latest from cvs for it all to work properly? > > The list of dependencies on the gnopernicus site is different from > the one shown in the gnopernicus docs that came when i got it > from cvs. the docs from cvs suggest that i also need the following. > libxml > cspi > glib libxml is provided by gnome-xml cspi is a library that is provided by at-spi module glib you need. I really need to update the site and instead of libraries to put the name of the modules that provide them. Thanks for the observation, indeed that piece of information is not clear for users. > > Willl I need the latest cvs of these as well, or can i get by with the > ones from rh out of the cds. I suggest you to use the gnome-2.2 stack, as I said before. If you use the stck it is not mandatory to use everything from CVS. Changes that are important and really relevant for gnopernicus are in modules : gail, atk, java-access-bridge and at-spi. So I encourage you to install only this modules from CVS. HTH && Best regards, Adi Dascal BAUM Engineering > > Thanks for any comments. > > Mat. > _______________________________________________ > gnome-accessibility-list mailing list > gnome-accessibility-list gnome org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
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