Re: [orca-list] problems upgrading to 3.0 under arch linux

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

Hello,
While I will state what needs to be done to get gnome 3.0 installed, I 
must stress the following warning.

Do not upgrade to gnome 3.0 on a system you require for productivity, 
there are some issues with it, some being issues with the actual 
software and some being issues with the packaging on archlinux. I 
understand some of the issues with gnome 3.0 in the accessibility area 
are being dealt with and actually may be fixed in git versions of the 
software.

The issues with the archlinux packaging do impact on accessibility, I 
have filed some bugs but not really seen much movement on them. It might 
be nice to see others who may value this to go and add comments and/or 
vote on those bugs. Here is a list of the bugs:
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/23704
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/23705
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/23707

OK, now I have got the warnings out of the way, if you still wish to 
proceed, read on.

I think the main thing to do here is manually remove gnome-panel-bonobo.
pacman -R gnome-panel-bonobo
If pacman complains of dependency issues then you may wish to try 
ignoring dependencies:
pacman -Rd gnome-panel-bonobo
If it still complains I think you can do a more severe ignore of 
dependencies:
pacman -Rdd gnome-panel-bonobo

After that you probably can just upgrade. However don't expect too much 
from orca, one of the bugs I listed is that orca won't pull in pyatspi 
as a dependency, and if you try and install it manually then there could 
be issues as at-spi and pyatspi contain some files of the same name and 
pacman may complain about conflicting files. You may be able to overcome 
that with the force option to pacman but this may not be too good for 
keeping the system maintainable. Another alternative might be to make 
pyatspi by hand but that also might have its issues.

Also when upgrading be aware that gnome 3.0 on archlinux will require 
pulseaudio, ensure you know how to get speech working with that before 
you do the upgrade.

Michael Whapples
On -10/01/37 20:59, Christopher Moore wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm running arch, but can't get the 3.0 upgrade to work.
> When I enable the testing repo and do a pacman -Su
> I get dependency errors starting with gnome-panel-bonobo
>
> How have others worked around this problem?
>
> TIA
> Chris