Re: [orca-list] finally on ubuntu!

["Mohammed Al-shar'" <mohammed atexplorer com>]

thank you very much.

by the way, is here anybody who uses gaim to access msn from linux? I tried 
yesterday but it won't let me in, although it worked fine with yahoo. 
anybody has special setup tips for this?

thank you.
Mohammed al-shar'
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Willie Walker" <William Walker Sun COM>
To: "Willie Walker" <William Walker Sun COM>
Cc: "Mohammed Al-shar'" <mohammed atexplorer com>; <Orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 3:30 AM
Subject: Re: [orca-list] finally on ubuntu!


> Whoops!  Rich pointed out to me that you should do an "sudo make install" 
> when building Orca from sources (the paragraph above the stuff I pulled 
> tells you to execute the commands as root).
>
> Will
>
>
> Willie Walker wrote:
> > Congratulations!  Here's some magic commands for building Orca from 
> > SVN -- I just pulled them from the Ubuntu section of "Setting Up Your 
> > Build Environment" of http://live.gnome.org/Orca/DownloadInstall:
> >
> > sudo apt-get build-dep gnome-orca
> > sudo apt-get install subversion gnome-common
> > svn co http://svn.gnome.org/svn/orca/trunk
> > cd trunk
> > ./autogen --prefix=/usr
> > make
> > make install
> >
> > Once you get the latest Orca working, you probably should also do an 
> > 'sudo apt-get remove gnome-orca' to keep Ubuntu from getting confused 
> > that you've installed the latest sources over the official package.
> >
> > Then..for Firefox, grab the latest nightly from 
> > ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/ and 
> > issue commands similar to the following (the actual filename will be 
> > different depending upon the name of the latest nightly build).  I pulled 
> > these from http://live.gnome.org/Orca/Firefox:
> >
> > bunzip2 firefox-3.0a3pre.en-US.linux-i686.tar.bz2
> > tar -xvf firefox-3.0a3pre.en-US.linux-i686.tar
> > cd firefox
> > ./firefox
> >
> > Hope this helps!
> >
> > Will
> >
> > Mohammed Al-shar' wrote:
> > > hi listers.
> > >  first, thanks for everybody who has helped in making me install my 
> > > first linux ever. the install went fine this time, things went 
> > > smoothely.
> > >  now I do want to get the latest version of orca and firefox, how do I? 
> > > I read the documentation availlable on live.gnome.org/orca but it 
> > > doesn't seem to be enough for somebody who never knew what linux is 
> > > before. I got at the point where I had to install svn as it appearantly 
> > > isn't installed automatically with ubuntu. if there was an easier method 
> > > let me know. I'd appreciate any help you may be able to offer.
> > >  thanks
> > > Mohammed al-shar'
> > >
> > >
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