Re: [orca-list] Announcing Ubuntu accessibility repository.

[Doug Lawlor <doug douglawlor com>]

Hi Luke:

Thanks very much for setting up the repository! I was thinking of trying 
something like this myself to make Orca-svn available in the deb format.

Again, thanks very much for this.

Doug

Luke Yelavich wrote:
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> Hi all
> I'm proud to announce a repository of packages for Ubuntu, containing various accessibility related packages 
> for use with ubuntu hardy. These packages are backports of newer versions that are currently in Ubuntu 
> Intrepid, which is the current development release, and will be released in October.
>
> The packages you will currently find in this repository are the following:
> * accerciser
> * atk
> * at-spi
> * brltty
> * espeak
> * gail
> * gnome-orca-devel (Development releases of Orca for gnome 2.23)
> * gnome-orca-stable (Stable releases of orca for gnome 2.22)
> * gnome-orca-svn (Currently not yet up to date with the latest svn code. This shall be addressed shortly)
> * gnome-speech
>
> Speech-dispatcher 0.6.7rc1 packages should be available in the coming days.
>
> A note about the orca packages. You can only have one installed at a time. This is because it is quite 
> difficult to have more than one version of orca on the system at any one time, however it does allow you to 
> easily switch from one to the other to the other. So for example, if you use gnome-orca-svn, and have 
> problems, you can install gnome-orca-devel, and gnome-orca-svn will be removed. If you then have a problem 
> with gnome-orca-devel, you can install gnome-orca-stable, and gnome-orca-devel will be removed. Same with 
> going the other direction, gnome-orca-stable to gnome-orca-svn for example.
>
> The gnome-speech and espeak packages have also had things changed somewhat to work with pulseaudio 
> differently. As of espeak 1.37, the espeak build process and source code has support for using pulseaudio as 
> a backend, as well as portaudio. When attempting to use gnome-speech with espeak, if you are running 
> pulseaudio, the pulseaudio backend of espeak will be used. if you are not running pulseaudio, espeak will 
> work via portaudio as normal. I've set things up this way to get some user testing with the espeak pulseaudio 
> backend. if tests prove favourable, I will look at making this the default for Ubuntu Intrepid. Note that 
> this has no affect on using other speech synthesizers with gnome-speech.
>
> to access the repository, add the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list.
>
> deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/accessibility-dev/ubuntu hardy main
>
> Please note that you will be asked if you want to install these packages from an unauthenticated repository, 
> so you will have to say yes twice when installing using apt-get on the command-line for example.
>
> if you have any problems with these packages including installing, upgrading, removing etc, please let me 
> know so I can fix things up as soon as possible.
>
> I hope you will find these packages useful.
>
> Luke Yelavich
> Ubuntu Accessibility Developer
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