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

[Josà Vilmar EstÃcio de Souza <vilmar informal com br>]

Hi, the line to be changed in speech.py file is the line 85 and must 
contains the following:
        factory = importlib.import_module('orca.%s' % moduleName)

There are 8 spaces in the begin of the line and they must be preserved.



On 12/17/2012 04:57 AM, kendell clark wrote:
> 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 The orca package in arch's database has been out of date for a week now.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.
>
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