Re: [orca-list] installing orca on debian

[Jason White <jason jasonjgw net>]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:23:44PM -0500, Alonzo wrote:
> I'm using Debian Lenny and wanitng to install the latest version of
> Orca.  

Try adding an entry for the Debian "experimental" repository to your
/etc/apt/sources.list, then install
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude install gnome-orca/experimental python-pyatspi/experimental

The reason why your attempt to build Orca from source didn't work is most
likely a missing dependency, perhaps the wrong version of autoconf.

If you still want to build from source, try this:

sudo aptitude build-dep gnome-orca

which should install everything you need to build the packaged version of
Orca. (The dependencies shouldn't have changed much since then).

The version of Orca in Debian Experimental is currently 2.24.1-1.

Regards,

Jason.