Re: [orca-list] uninstalling gnome-orca

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

> now that I think I successfully installed orca from the subversion, 
> ("orca -" = 2.19pre) if go ahead and do "sudo apt-get remove gnome-orca" 
> and then confirm, gnome-orca will be removed, and when rebooting and 
> issuing "orca" it tells me /usr/orca was not found or something to that 
> effect. what is the correct way to tell if I am indeed running the 
> version of orca from svn, and how do I correctly remove gnome-orca?

Darn!  You're right.  :-(  This is a major Catch-22 situation.  "sudo 
apt-get remove gnome-orca" always removes /usr/bin/orca.  If you issue 
the command before building from sources, you risk the case where you 
run into issues building Orca from sources and you're stuck without a 
screen reader.  If you issue the command after building the sources, you 
end up without /usr/bin/orca.  The proper procedure now seems to be:

1) Build/install from sources
2) Make sure the new Orca works
3) sudo apt-get remove gnome-orca
4) Reinstall orca from sources (sudo make install)

Of course, you can always skip the "sudo apt-get remove gnome-orca" 
part, but all updates will then always complain about the gnome-orca 
package.  Sigh.  :-(

Will

>  
> has anybody noticed that if you play some music and then quit the music 
> player orca won't be speaking? I have to run it again. is this really true?
>  
> thanks
> Mohammed
>
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