Re: [orca-list] GMSGFMT mystery solved

[Rich Burridge <Rich Burridge Sun COM>]

John Heim wrote:
> ...
> PPS: I've been taking notes on what I've been doing to get orca working on 
> my debian testing system. I have to get it working on debian testing because 
> that is what we have in my department at the University of Wisconsin. Here 
> are my notes (they are very brief).
>   

Would something like the following (as suggested by the Orca wiki)
have worked instead?

sudo apt-get remove gnome-orca
sudo apt-get build-dep gnome-orca
sudo apt-get install subversion gnome-common


> ===
> orca---
> wget http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/GNOME/sources/orca/2.18/orca-2.18.0.tar.gz
>        tar -zxf orca-2.18.0.tar.gz
>
> apt-get install gcc libexpat1-dev
> perl -MCPAN -e "install XML::Parser"
> apt-get install pkg-config libglib2.0-dev python-dev python-pyorbit-dev
> apt-get install python-at-spi gettext
>