Re: [orca-list] libXft Dependency

[Steve Holmes <steve holmesgrown com>]

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Yep, I found it later; after looking again, I found a MANIFEST.BZ2 on
the second disk where X stuff lives.  You're right; I did not
originally do a full install because I never used X before.  I
hesitate to go and install every single package in the X/ directory in
case some of it is for the KDE stuff.  I don't want any of the KDE
stuff.  I like the look and feel of the dropline install script.  I
just wish they had a resume feature when it breaks for missing
components.  If doing a full install and you get one of those errors,
the full-install of dropline starts all over again <yuck>.  When I got
that error with pango-querymodules tyesterday, I had installed nearly
200 packages already.  It wouldn't pick up from where I left off
<sigh>.  Well, it's running in another console right now; here's to a
clean run this time.

Thanks for the suggested line change.  I'll watch for it but I think
I'm going to do an upgrade before attempting to run gnome for the
first time.  That will get me up to dropline-2.20.2; not sure if Orca
will update though.  this install has 2.20.2 already for Orca.

I plan to use espeak so hopefully that should go all right.  I knew
upgrading to X from strait console mode would be a *MAJOR* project.

On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 09:39:32PM -0600, Adam Myrow wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Jan 2008, Steve Holmes wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know where that might come from?  I saw that file mentioned 
> > in an earlier MANAFEST but I thought dropline was for Slack 12 and not 
> > something ealier.
>
> The package is called libXft-2.1.12-i486.tgz.  The only description given 
> states that it is part of X11.  So, I suspect you haven't done a full 
> install of the X packages.
>
> I did an install of Dropline on New Year's Day, and had no trouble getting 
> it installed.  However, I did have problems with Orca.  I ended up adding 
> the following line to the 
> top of /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/orca/chnames.py to get Orca 
> working.
> # encoding=utf-8
>
> Also, I had previously compiled Festival from source.
>
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