Re: [orca-list] updating Gnome 3 in Debian

["B. Henry" <burt1iband gmail com>]

Ok, I won't send the message I had written now that I see your experience, Alex. 
So, why not use Debian testing to get new Gnome and latest orca and the accessibility stack?
I doubt you can use any Orca new enough to make a difference over 3.4 with gnome3.4, i.e. Weasey, so it would 
really be to ones advantage to get 
something newer. I've found Debian testing to be quite reliable, but have mostly run Debian as a CLI-only OS, 
and there's of course much more to 
bereak/much more complexity in a Desktop environment, so I'd leave things alone assuming you get a good 
installation that works for you, i.e. not update 
much until my class was finished. At least make sure you have copies of known working package versions before 
attempting any updates. Breakage is often 
no big deal, and may be easy enough to fix, but I'd not want to have to sweat it in the instances where 
something is not so easy when under a deadline 
such as finishing class projects.
--
B.H.

On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 09:01:54PM -0600, Alex Midence wrote:
> I do not recommend upgrading to Gnome 3.14 in Wheezy after having tried it myself. The reason is that it 
> will break your speech dispatcher and your machine will not talk anymore due to a bug with autospawn. It 
> was a nightmare! 
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Nov 14, 2014, at 10:14 AM, Vincenzo Rubano <vincenzo rubano studio unibo it> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > at university, we need to use Debian for a project. So, I installed it on a laptop to verify its 
> > accessibility. However, I found out that Debian wheezy ships with Gnome 3.4.
> >
> > Since I???ve been told that between Gnome 3.4 and Gnome 3.14 there have been a lot of accessibility 
> > enhancements, I???d like to upgrade the Gnome version installed in my Debian. Could you give me any 
> > advice on the best way to proceed?
> >
> > I tried adding the Wheezy-backports repository to apt, but after entering in terminal
> > apt-get -t wheezy-backports install gnome-shell
> > or
> > apt-get -t wheezy-backports install task-desktop
> > apt-get me tells me that the packages are up to date.
> >
> > I tried adding the Vinux/Trusty PPA to apt-get, but when entering
> > apt-get update
> > and after that
> > apt-get upgrade
> > Debian informs me that it cannot find packages for Wheezy.
> >
> > I read about apt-pinning, but a lot of people discouraged me to do it to avoid problems with my machine.
> >
> > The last option I considered was installing Gnome after compiling it from source, but that???s an option 
> > I???d like to avoid: I would prefer to install already compiled binaries from the package manager.
> >
> > Could you give me any advice, please? I don???t know what to do, but I need to absolutely upgrade Gnome 
> > hoping that accessibility has been enhanced, since in my current setup it???s half a disaster!
> >
> > Thanks in advance for your help.
> >
> > Vincenzo.
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