Re: Orca 0.2.4 setting issue

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi:

I also just remembered that the preferred installation location for Orca
on Solaris/Vermillion is the vendor-packages vs. site-packages
directory, so it might be that Tim also needs to delete the Orca that's
in /usr/lib/python2.4/vendor-packages.

Will

On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 08:07 -0700, Rich Burridge wrote:
> Tim Miao wrote:
> > Sorry,  "orca --text-setup" doesn't work for me either.
> >
> > I'm not sure why this happens. It's strange. After installation of 
> > vermillion_42 on snv_41, I could find /usr/bin/orca while others of my 
> > colleagues in Beijing Team can not find it on their box.
> > So I went to orca download page and got the latest orca 0.2.4 source 
> > code, installed it on my box with default configure settings. The orca 
> > was installed to /usr/local/bin/orca. I tried to invoke the orca gui 
> > setting dialog with "/usr/local/bin/orca --gui-setup", but failed.
> > I removed all the files and directory in my home directory which was 
> > created by /usr/bin/orca-setup. Then I run the /usr/local/bin/orca 
> > --text-setup again, it still doesn't work.
> > I tried to generate the .orca directory in my home directory with 
> > /usr/bin/orca-setup, and uncommented those three lines, run 
> > /usr/local/bin/orca --text-setup again, the output listed below:
> > ##################
> > bash-3.00$ /usr/local/bin/orca --text-setup
> > GTK Accessibility Module initialized
> > Changing debug level to 1000
> > Changed debug level to 1000
> > Changing debug level to 0
> > Changed debug level to 0
> > ##################
> >
> > orca gui preference still failed to start.
>
> Okay, I think I understand now. Even if you are starting the new version of
> Orca from CVS (the one you installed in /usr/local/bin), Python is still 
> getting the
> rest of it's installed .py files from under /usr/lib/python2.4/ (the new 
> ones would have
> gone under /usr/local/lib/python2.4). These would be the old ones.
>
> The best thing to do is to reconfigure Orca from the CVS source code with
>
> autogen.sh --prefix=/usr
>
> then when you do the "make install" it'll overwrite the ones under /usr.
>
> For extra bonus points, you can remove the Orca files under /usr/local
> so it will reduce confusion in the future.
>
> Thanks.
>
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