Re: [orca-list] Updating Orca

[Dorado Martínez, Francisco Javier <FDMA once es>]

Hi to all


> to remember. If when you type make and you get an error then 
> stop there and ask for assistance on the error you get (don't 
> just do make install). I don't know if it is possible to do a 
> separate install (so you can keep your old version of orca as 
> well as the new one (reason being should something be wrong 
> with the new version you can always go back, if you weren't 
> to do this, how would you access your computer?), anyone know 
> how to have two versions installed if possible?

You can compile and run Orca from another directory 

When compile use --prefix=/your/path/directory where you want Orca to be installed
E.g by running ./configure --prefix=/home/user/orca
Then make and make install should do the rest

Now you can run your new Orca installation setting /home/usr/orca/lib/python2.5/site-packages in your 
pythonpath environment variable
Export PYTHONPATH=/home/user/orca/lib/python2.5/site-packages
Now run /home/user/orca/bin/orca

Even you can pass an argument to the orca command -u to indicate a path to pick configuration from.
E.g. /home/user/orca/bin/orca -u /home/user/orca

The above command will run orca using /home/user/orca as your user preferences directory.

In this way you have two version of Orca one your original /usr/bin/orca and your recently built 
/home/user/orca 
And with two user preferences configuration.

This is a good way to install Orca in systems where you don't have root privileges and don't have it 
installed. But this would be an extrange situation :-) orca is bundled in many Linux distributions yet.

Hope this help

Regards,

Javier

> Compiling shouldn't be a problem for you if you follow the 
> instructions available, and in linux if you want the very 
> latest then you will need to do compiling regularly, so you 
> need to start somewhere.
>
> From
> Michael Whapples
> On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 09:16 +0100, Ollie wrote:
> > Hello list,
> > I have installed Ubuntu 7.10 as it is.
> > Would you advise me to update Orca to the latest version? 
> Please, keep 
> > in mind that I have no programming or compiling knowledge, 
> so I would 
> > have to use the software as it comes. Thanks, all the best,
> > Ollie
>
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