Re: [orca-list] All Kinds Of Speech Loss Issues With ORca, Espeak

[Richard Wells <richwels bupster cjb net>]

Hello, I am stopped before I can even try to get the latest revision of 
orca. When I do:
sudo apt-get install svn
I am told that svn cannot be found.

What did I do wrong?

Thanks

> From: krishnakant Mane <researchbase gmail com>
> To: Richard Wells <richwels bupster cjb net>
> Cc: orca-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: [orca-list] All Kinds Of Speech Loss Issues With ORca,
>      Espeak And Ubuntu 7.04

> hello,
> you can't update orca with apt-get install or update.
> orca is maintained in a svn repository.
> you first need to install svn for your needs.
> the command is,
> sudo apt-get install svn
> then do a sudo apt-get update for your machine
> and then execute,
> sudo apt-get gnome-common.
> you can then checkout orca in your home folder or whereever you like
> with svn co http://svn.gnome.org/svn/orca/trunk orca.
> some one correct me if I have missed some thing.
> this was a long time back that I executed the command.
> basically in an email a few days back on the orca list, details were
> given when I was also at the same position and now I am successful.
> any ways, after doing the svn checkout do the following.
> sudo apt-get build-dep gnome-orca
> this will get and build the dependencies for orca.
> then go in the newly created orca directory with cd orca, and then issue
> ./autogen.sh --prifix=/usr and press enter.
> you will hear a lot of stuff which is basically to pilot a make
> process to build orca from the checked out source.
> it checks whether you have all the necessary tools to build and run orca.
> after this process completes successfully, the last line before the
> prompt will say some thing like "type make to build orca".
> I can't remember the exact words but type make were the first two words.
> now type make and press enter.
> again a lot of text will appear on the screen.  some thing similar to
> "entering directory bla bla bla and leaving directory bla bla bla ".
> after this process completes, type sudo make install to finally
> install the orca u just built.
> stop orca with insert q or capslok q for laptop.
> now restart orca.
> that's it!
> if you have any problems please let the list know.
> regards.
> Krishnakant.

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