Re: Orca orca on ubuntu

["Cody" <churst31 verizon net>]

Hi,

 I installed orca from source but to no avail did it work. Ugh, I'm so 
frustrated! I see the orca prefs window butno speech.

Cody
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joanmarie Diggs" <joanmarie diggs carroll org>
To: "Orca screen reader developers" <orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 8:52 AM
Subject: Re: Orca orca on ubuntu


> Hi Cody. On my desktop I built Orca from sources, got that same error,
> and was equally puzzled.  I suppose in an ideal "Linux for Human Beings"
> world, there is no need to compile stuff. <smile>  Anyway, I installed
> gcc and then tried again and got a couple of different warnings which
> totally escape me now. But suffice it to say there were a few other
> packages that needed obtaining first.
>
> On my laptop, however, I got 2.5 up and running almost instantly thanks
> to Luke's making the packages available.  Read his original post:
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/orca-list/2006-June/msg00044.html
>
> I think you'll find it easier than building.
>
> Take care.
> Joanie
>
>
> On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 08:24 -0700, Cody wrote:
> > thanks, I will compile orca from sources. I will need to update, as I 
> > have
> > already tried to install via sources and already saw it wouldn't work 
> > which
> > sent me for a loop but since you explained that, I understand now. Also, 
> > how
> > does any linux distribution not come with a c compiler? when I tried to
> > compile orca it gave me an error saying no c compiler found. beets me but
> > anyways...
> >
> > thanks
> >   Cody
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Thomas Ward" <tward1978 earthlink net>
> > To: "Orca screen reader developers" <orca-list gnome org>
> > Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 1:00 AM
> > Subject: Re: Orca orca on ubuntu
> >
> >
> > > Hi, Cody.
> > >
> > > Cody wrote:
> > >
> > > 1. uncommented the several universe lines in the sources.list file in
> > > /etc/apt/
> > >
> > > That is good, but I don't recommend the orca package.
> > >
> > > 2. ran a sudo apt-get update
> > > 3. Once that was done which took only a few minutes, I then ran apt-get
> > > install gnome-orca
> > >
> > > Be advised that the gnome-orca package is out of date. I did what you
> > > did at first as well and I only got gnome-orca 0.2.22. I ended up
> > > compiling gnome-speech and orca from the gnome ftp sources.
> > >
> > > 4. rebooted then logged in as a user, then hit alt f2 and ran orca.
> > > Nothing happened, no sound, nothing.
> > >
> > > Yeah, that is a massive bug under Ubuntu. When you run apps from the 
> > > run
> > > dialog under Ubuntu, especially orca, the gnome pannel crashes hanging
> > > the entire desktop.
> > > There is a work around though.
> > >
> > >  What am I doing wrong?
> > >
> > > Don't run orca directly from the run dialog. Instead go to run, type
> > > gnome-terminal, followed by enter. Hit backspace to confirm you are
> > > actually in the terminal. If you hear a beep from your pc speaker you
> > > are in gnome-terminal. From in gnome terminal type orca. it should load
> > > with the default synthesis driver which is festival.
> > > After orca is working you will have to enable access support for gnome,
> > > log out, and log back in.
> > > After you are logged back in you will want to run orca again from
> > > gnome-terminal, and set up a session for orca to launch automaticly 
> > > upon
> > > logging in.
> > >
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