Re: [orca-list] installing orca on debian

[Steve Holmes <steve holmes88 gmail com>]

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I'm replying this back to the list because Jason would have never seen
your message otherwise.  I wish this list was configured with Reply-To
going to the list instead of the sender.  But anyway, I installed
numerous packages over the past week so forgot specifically which dev
packages I needed to get at-spi to compile.  I think I recalled
looking for the name of missing header files and I know that if the
./configure step fails, it usually will mention the actual missing
packages.  Then I can just search for the needed package in aptitude.
For these compiles and such, I look for the package name and for any
package-dev name.  So far, that has generally worked out pretty well.
I think a lot of this would be easier if Debian wouldn't break up so
many packages.  But I suppose if someone has no desire to compile any
programs, they could save space by not installing any *.dev packages.
Me on the other hand, I prefer to install the whole of a package
including standard headers and the like.

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:35:18PM -0500, Alonzo wrote:
> hello Jason,
>
> I tried addingg the experimental reposityr ot my system and did
> aptitude install gnome-orca/experimental
>
> I deleted the packages for now because at-spi and a python package could 
> not be configured correctly. so I'm not sure what to do. I know steve 
> said he search for the deb counter parts of header files, but I'm not 
> sure which header filesto start looking for.
> Gconf is installed and aptitude build-dep gconf does nothing and seems to 
> have meet all dependencies.
>
> alonzo
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Holmes" 
> <steve holmes88 gmail com>
> To: <orca-list gnome org>
> Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 6:34 AM
> Subject: Re: [orca-list] installing orca on debian
>
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> > When I recompiled all the orca related packages from svn recently,
> > everything pretty much compiled flawlessly.  A couple times I ran into
> > problems with missing headers and the like but was able to track them
> > down in searching in aptitude and installing the dev counterparts of
> > those packages.  I'm using it now.  Is experimental a replacement for
> > unstable or is that yet another level of Debian package maintenance?
> > I'm still on Testing right now because I just got started with Debian
> > and I wanna get comfortable with how things work in this environment
> > before I go off and start experimentaing with potentially unstable
> > packages.
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 01:26:54PM +0800, Li Yuan wrote:
> > > Hi Alonzo,
> > >
> > > Maybe you need gconf related packages installed.
> > >
> > > Li
> > >
> > >
> > > 2008/10/30 Alonzo <mariachiac aim com>
> > >
> > > > I'll include the previous message that I wrote to Jason since it 
> > > did > not
> > > > get posted to the list.
> > > > One thing to add here was I did do the process to build the > 
> > > dependencies
> > > > and got the errors attatched to my first message when trying to install
> > > > at-spi.
> > > >
> > > > Hello Jason,
> > > >
> > > > How stable is debian experimental? I could beleive upgrade from 
> > > lenny > to
> > > > experimental. I could try that and see what happens. However, this
> > > > happened when trying to install at-spi, not Orca itself.
> > > > So does it still apply?
> > > >
> > > > Alonzo
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 15:34 +1100, Jason White wrote:
> > > > > 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.
> > > > >
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