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Re: [orca-list] orcasuddenly doesn't speak

Hi Mike:
The Ubuntu folks are very good about making the announced releases of Orca available in a very timely manner. As such, just updating Ubuntu will usually get you the latest announced Orca release.
As for nightly builds of Orca, we've basically taken the approach that you should just build it from source. One reason for this is that we're not fully resourced to create nightly builds for Solaris, Ubuntu, and Fedora. Once you get your build environment up and running, the download/build/install process via Orca sources typically takes less than a minute.
For this particular instance, you might try reinstalling Feisty. If you can get some sighted assistance, though, I think you might save time by just getting your build environment set up. Did you save the autogen errors? There may be something I missed when writing up the notes for Ubuntu, and it would be great to get it fixed. 

Thanks!

Will

Mike Reiser wrote:
Unfortunately I don't have access to emaxspeak and don't know how to use it, nor a concel or SSH. When I tried to build it from source like you suggested I got a bunch of .autogen errors. Have you considered putting orca in a binary file like a .deb file so that those of us that are linux novices could just install it and be up and running? Smiles. Also it would be nice if there was an auto-update feature in orca like in ubuntu. So, since I can't SSH into my linux due to it being dool booting with windows, is there a quick way I can get orca up and running or should I just do a clean install of feisty? Thanks for your help, 

Mike
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Willie Walker" <William Walker Sun COM> 
To: "Mike Reiser" <metalhead1009000 gmail com>
Cc: <orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 8:53 AM
Subject: Re: [orca-list] orcasuddenly doesn't speak



Hi Mike:
Bummer! Do you have any other means to access at least a virtual console (e.g., brltty or emacspeak)? Or, can you telnet/ssh into the machine from a different machine?
I suspect all you need to do is get a successful build/install of Orca going and things will work OK. Did you run into issues when you were building/installing Orca? 

Will
PS - the main reason for deleting the gnome-orca package is so the update manager will not get confused. I've adjusted the WIKI to kind of play the importance of this down a little bit, and adjusted the recommendation to do the removal only after you've successfully build/installed Orca from sources. Sorry for the trouble! 

Mike Reiser wrote:

Hello all,
This morning when I booted into ubuntu, orca just suddenly would not come up or speak. I can't remember what the last thing I did on the system was, except maybe remove the gnome-orca package as it said on the site to build the orca inviornment. Is there a way I can just remove ubuntu and re-install it so I can reset everything back to the way they were? I'm using windows at the moment, thus I'm able to write this message. Thanks, 
 Mike
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