Re: [orca-list] Orca and linux distros

["Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog Iona" <hanksmith hanksmith net>]

how do u install this and run it is there any getting started with this 
distro?
will give this a try.
the older version wouldn't run on my desktop at all
Hank

On 12/27/2013 12:45 PM, Kyle wrote:
> Try the latest alpha that I built. It seems to work on everything I've
> tried booting it on. In all the holiday rush, I seem to have forgotten
> that although I had uploaded the 2014.1alpha1 builds of Sonar Manjaro to
> my own server, they haven't yet been uploaded to the SourceForge page,
> so you may have an older version. I am posting links to the latest
> 32-bit and 64-bit alpha1 builds here for testing.
>
> 64-bit x86_64
> http://kyle.tk/sonar/sonar-gnome-2014.1alpha1-x86_64.iso
> md5sum: 802263cc40ffc182af32d3dbea9c52de
> sha256sum: 173d05311f33f5570dbf2b0b9d5e232f6a38ba91141c887230275e892e7a6be8
>
> 32-bit i686
> http://kyle.tk/sonar/sonar-gnome-2014.1alpha1-i686.iso
> md5sum: e410f09e3f20126ba5c02f77c409c3ce
> sha256sum: 173d05311f33f5570dbf2b0b9d5e232f6a38ba91141c887230275e892e7a6be8
>
> The automatic installation using the graphical installer seems to work
> most of the time, but does die halfway through the process sometimes.
> Customizations do tend to kill it faster. Most of these problems seem to
> be fixed, and I will rebuild as soon as the fixes make it into the
> unstable repositories.
>
> Just a note: The alpha builds of Sonar based on Manjaro are built using
> the unstable branch, but the installation will pull from the stable
> branch. Therefore, you can expect some warnings about local packages
> being newer than the versions in the repository. As alpha versions are
> primarily made available for testing purposes, I didnt' see a problem
> with this setup. If this does cause a problem, something like
>
> sudo pacman -Syy
> sudo pacman -Suu
>
> should synchronize your installation with the stable branch. If you wish
> to remain on the unstable branch, you can simply run
>
> sudo pacman-mirrors -g -b unstable
>
> Hope this helps.
> ~Kyle
> http://kyle.tk/