Re: [orca-list] Need Orca installation tip/guidelines



ashis v purbhoo exxonmobil com writes:
All -

   Would waiting for RHEL6 make sense?

If you can't go Fedora 9 for some reason, I would say "yes, that makes
sense." I'm not sure what that schedule is, but it's most definitely
much, much closer to current Orca/Gnome.

   Is it wiser to start without the latest & greatest GNOME, Orac, BrITTY
   versions?  If there have been great strides in Orca/AT-SPI development
   does it make sense to really attempt to use the older versions?  What
   advancements will be lacking?


Others may speak to some of the architectural details. From a user
perspective, your biggest win is Firefox 3 support, which comes by
default in F-9, and hopefully will also in RHEL 6.

   Has testing only been completed on 32-bit / 64-bit or both?


I have run mostly 64-bit for some time. There are a few glitches, but
swapping in the 32-bit packages where there is a glitch appears to work
seemlessly. It's our current guidance with the SpeakupModified Fedora,
see http://SpeakupModified.Org.

Janina


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You'll be better off if you can use Fedora 9 rather than RHEL 5 (which
is basically FC-6).

Every month or so someone comes along insisting they will get Orca
working on RHEL--but Orca/AT-SPI development has moved rapidly since
FC-6, and I'm unaware that anyone has succeeded at overcoming the
problem of running today's Gnome AT on almost two year old distros.


If you must run RHEL, consider putting F-9 in a vm, or on a separate
machine, and using ssh to get at the RHEL system.

Janina

ashis v purbhoo exxonmobil com writes:

William/Orca Project,

You've mostly likely been in contact with Louis J. Maher.

I'm working with him to install Orac on a RHEL5 machine and needed to
determine what are going to be the steps/software/etc. that is going to
be
required to get this set-up.  I'm looking to get an overall picture of
what
is going to be involved & how things work.  A big request, but I need an
understanding of building and interactions of how this works.  In
addition,
the Braille device, what are the dependancies on building/compiling to
the
specific Braille device?

Here is what I have so far:
   RHEL 5.0 (64-bit)
   GNOME v2.22 or v2.23 w/ Orca Screen Reader v2.22 or v.2.23
   BrITTY v3.8 or better
   Java Access Bridge (JABG) v1.5
   Java v6 to build/compile JABG
   Common Build Environment JDS CBE v1.6
   ATK v2.0, GAIL v1.8.11, AT-SPI v1.7.7 will need to compiled &
installed

Thanks.

Regards,
Ashis Purbhoo
BLI / Technical Systems / Engineering
ExxonMobil GSC - Information Technology
Office: 713.431.4875, Fax: 713.431.7911
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