Re: [orca-list] failure installing orca from sources,

[Hermann <meinelisten onlinehome de>]

am Do 13. Mär 2008 um 10:11:08 schrieb Mohammed Al-shar' <mohammed atexplorer com>:
OK, let's answer step by step:
> 1. I have made sure that my system is up to date: sudo apt-get update, sudo apt-get upgrade.
 
That was the first problem:
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
This makes sure, that only the packages of the certain distro are 
upgraded. "upgrade" installs all related packages including unstable and 
experimental ones.

> 2. I issued the commands: sudo apt-get build-dep gnome-orca and sudo apt-get install subversion 
> gnome-common automake1.9 with no troubles except for a warning that some packages were not authenticated 
> and it asked me if if I want to install them anyway, so I answered yes.
 
As I told you, you musn't ignore warnings. Maybe it has to do with the 
"upgrade" issue.

> 3. I then grabbed the latest sources from orca, svn co http://svn.gnome.org/svn/orca/trunk orca, it was 
> revision 3720.
 
Here we get the next problem: The very latest Orca only works with the 
latest atp-spi, atk and gail; you get this over svn. See the wiki on the 
Orca page. Unfortunately I don't know the exact link by heart, but it's 
in the chapter "download/install Orca".

> 4. I then changed to the orca directory, cd orca, and did a sudo ./autogen here it did its thing, but 
> warned me that I passed no arguments to autogen.sh. is this still true? I remember in the passed we used to 
> pass the location of orca in /usr/lib or so. 
 
Don't do "./autogen.sh" as root. You can write it with no argument, 
however Orca will get installed to /usr/local instead of /usr. 
Consequence: You have 2 Orcas running, unless you've uninstalled your 
previous Orca:
sudo apt-get remove gnome-orca
You should decide which way you want to go.

> 5. I then did a make and then sudo make install which went fine.
>
> but now orca is silent. I repooted and then went to run and typed orca, nothing happens, not even a 
> warning. same if I run orca from the terminal. what can I do?
 
It should be clear why this happened. In addition: You must install the 
package python-atspi, it's also needed for Orca since 2.21:
sudo apt-get install python-atspi
Hermann