Re: [orca-list] Orca branched for GNOME 2.22 today...

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Rich:

You were on my long list of things to get to soon.  :-)  GNOME 2.22.0 is 
code freezing this coming Monday, I've been swamped with the GNOME 
Outreach Program for Accessibility, we're prepping for CSUN, yadda yadda 
yadda.

If you just want the latest Orca, and not all of GNOME 2.22, you can 
upgrade just key components: atk, gail, at-spi, and orca.   This 
generally works well for me and others who have at least GNOME 2.20 
installed on their machines (see gnome-about --version).  I find the 
easiest way to do this is by building from source.

NOTE: BEFORE YOU READ ON -- I'm a very bold person when it comes to 
trashing my machine.  So...keep this in mind when doing the following. 
Back up your important data.  Your mileage may vary.  Beware.  Be brave. 
 Be ready to re-install.  Smile and have your sense of humor ready.

On Ubuntu, you need to make sure your build environment is in place. 
The procedure is outlined at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/DownloadInstall.

In short, though, these commands probably should get your build 
environment set up:

sudo apt-get build-dep gail at-spi gnome-orca
sudo apt-get install subversion gnome-common automake1.9

Then, you need to get atk, gail, at-spi, and orca from SVN and 
build/install them.  I give no guarantees that the following commands 
will work, but I've been using something very similar on the machines 
I've been staging for CSUN.  All they really do is just pull each module 
from svn, do an autogen.sh, build, and install.  You might to run 
'script' first to save the output away just in case things want to fail:

cd /tmp
for foo in "atk" "gail" "at-spi" "orca"
do
extra_args=
if [ "$foo" == "at-spi" ]
then
  extra_args="--libexecdir=/usr/libexec"
fi
svn co http://svn.gnome.org/svn/$foo/trunk $foo
cd $foo
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr $extra_args
make
sudo make install
cd ..
done

Note that these commands will replace your entire AT-SPI infrastructure, 
and you should at least log out and log back in for things to take effect.

Will

Rich Caloggero wrote:
> How do I upgrade Ubuntu Gutsy to gnome-2.22?  I'm using apt command-line
> utility. Do I need to put the gnome svn development url in the
> sources.list file or something and then do "apt-get upgrade gnome"? When
> I do this now, all I get is upgrades in 2.20.
>
> Any pointers greatly appreciated.
> -- Rich
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Willie Walker" <William Walker Sun COM>
> To: "Rich Caloggero" <rjc MIT EDU>
> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 2:43 PM
> Subject: Re: [orca-list] Orca branched for GNOME 2.22 today...
>
>
> > Hi Rich:
> >
> > Depending upon what operating system you use, it's not all that bad.
> > The two operating systems that make it relatively unhorrid are Solaris
> > Express Community Edition and Ubuntu. If you're using one of these,
> > let me know and I can try to help you.
> >
> > Will
> >
> > Rich Caloggero wrote:
> > > So how do I upgrade gnome? Do I have to use svn, point to the URL you
> > > gave in the message, download and compile from source? Will apt-get
> > > or any of the other ubuntu system updaters upgrade gnome for me? I
> > > have very bad memories of trying to do anything to gnome from source
> > > -- absolutely horrid!!
> > >
> > > -- Rich
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Willie Walker"
> > > <William Walker Sun COM>
> > > To: "Willie Walker" <William Walker Sun COM>; <orca-list gnome org>
> > > Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 2:21 PM
> > > Subject: [orca-list] Orca branched for GNOME 2.22 today...
> > >
> > >
> > > > Hi Everyone:
> > > >
> > > > For those of you working against the SVN versions of Orca, it is
> > > > important to let you know that we branched Orca this week. What does
> > > > this mean for you?
> > > >
> > > > * For work on Orca for GNOME 2.22, you need to use the gnome-2-22
> > > > branch. We'll work to keep this stable:
> > > >
> > > > svn co http://svn.gnome.org/svn/orca/branches/gnome-2-22
> > > >
> > > > All releases for GNOME 2.22 will be based from this branch.
> > > >
> > > > * For work on Orca for the future (e.g., GNOME 2.24), you need to
> > > > use the trunk, which is what most of you might be using:
> > > >
> > > > svn co http://svn.gnome.org/svn/orca/trunk
> > > >
> > > > Thanks everyone!
> > > >
> > > > Will
> > > >
> > > >
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> > > > Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca