Re: [orca-list] Getting Orca to work on Arch Linux

[kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>]

hi
I can actually help here.
The orca package in arch's database has been out of date for a week now. 
The orca package in arch's database has an error in one of orca's python 
files which causes it to run but not speak. There are two ways around 
this. If you do not have the abs (arch build system installed), you can 
install it with #pacman -s abs. Once you have type abs as root, and once 
it has downloaded all it's files, you can update orca using the pkg 
build script found in /var/abs/extra/orca. You might want to copy the 
entire orca folder from /var/abs/extra/orca to a folder in your home 
folder, #cp -r /var/abs/extra/orca ~/orca. Open the PKGBUILD with your 
favorite editor and edit the line which reads, pkgver=3.6.2 to, 
pkgver=3.6.3. Save and exit the file and run as as your normal user,  
#makepkg -si. This will build orca from source, using the new version 
available on the gnome ftp server, and install it. The newer version 
fixes the error that prevents orca from speaking. Just restart orca and 
you should have speech. The other way is to edit the speech.py file 
found in /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/orca/ I cannot remember the 
line to fix, or what it is supposed to be fixed to though. Sorry. It 
would probably be easier to simply build orca from the pkg build script 
anyway.
I hope I've been helpful
On 12/17/2012 12:22 AM, Robert Spangler wrote:
> Hello all, I installed Arch on my laptop today.  I also installed 
> gnome and gnome-extras which includes orca.  When I start Gnome 
> (either via startx or gdm) I get sound as is verified in the 
> gnome-terminal window, but orca does not speak when I try to activate 
> it.  It appears to be running, though, because I piped the output of 
> the orca command to espeak and it said another instance was running.
>
> I read the archives and saw that some people were having issues in the 
> past but I saw no solutions.