[orca-list] Problems updating Orca

[John Robinson <jbr100uk yahoo co uk>]

Hi everyone.  I'm a complete beginner with Linux and am experimenting 
with Opensuse 10.2.  I currently have Orca version 1.0 which came as 
part of Opensuse 10.2, but would like to upgrade Orca to 2.20.0 which I 
understand is the latest version.  I am using the GCC compiler version 
4.1.  My problem is as follows:

Having downloaded and extracted the orca-2.20.tar.gz file, I try to run 
the ./configure shell script from the Orca subdirectory.  Everything 
seems to work correctly until the script checks for Python headers which 
it says I need to compile the parts of Orca written in Python.  The 
script tells me it cannot find these headers and then aborts.  I have 
Python 2.5 installed, but am having difficulty installing the 
development libraries which I understand contain the header files.  I 
believe the library I need is called Python_Devel which is described as 
'Include files essential for development'.  When I try to install this, 
however, the Yast installer I am using says it cannot continue because 
installing this package would invalidate another package already on my 
system.

I would be very grateful to hear from anyone who can explain which files 
I need and exactly what I need to do to update Orca to the latest version.

Many thanks in advance for any help.

Kind regards,

John Robisnon


        
        
                
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