Re: [orca-list] INSTALLING HARDY

[Hermann <meinelisten onlinehome de>]

am Mi 16. Apr 2008 um 12:26:10 schrieb Peter Vágner <peter v datagate sk>:
> Hello Guys,
> I feel I have overlooked some very important postings or discussions 
> because hardy is near from complete and I think I am unable to install 
> it with Orca.
> What I did:
> 1) downloaded and burned yesterday's dayly build.
> 2) booted into it.
> 3) hit alft+f2 typed gnome-terminal and pressed enter.
> 4) into gnome-terminal window typed orca and followed all the instructions
> 5) after the gnome session has automatically been restarted I did seps 3 
> and 4 again with the only difference I was runing orca as root by 
> prepending its command with sudo.

No. You change the user to root, and than you type:
orca --nosetup
(hope I've written it correctly, so to be sure check out orca -h)

> 6) did a restart of gnome session using ctrl+alt+backspace just to ensure.

You are back as user, and you must repeat the procedure above.

> 7) I am assuming in such a state I can run
> sudo orca
> and then
> sudo ubiquity
> and get speech.

No. You should first change to root:
sudo su
and then:
orca --nosetup
ubiquity

> But unluckily orca keeps silent after doing this.
> If this is all wrong can anybody post a solution which worked for 
> someone? I am afraid the only way to get hardy runing on a new system is 
> by installing gutsy, and then dist-upgrading to hardy atm.
 
You can do the latter one, but beware of a lot of time to spend.
If I remember the postings to the list well, the way chosen by you is not 
very reliable.
Do you have a braille display? If so, and if it is connected via USB, you 
better download the alternate CD, insert it and start the install 
procedure. The display is recognized automatically. I did this when 
installing Feisty and Gutsy.
Hermann