Re: [orca-list] updating Orca

["D. A. H." <dhunt freedommail co>]

By "building from sources", what is usually meant is:
downloading and extracting a "tarball", or "cloning" a repository of 
code in a high-level language, such as C or Python, and manually 
following instructions which cause this code to be compiled and 
installed as an application program or kernel (if you're really brave); 
 lol.  Unless you have also done the steps to turn your resulting 
installable code into a package, such as in Ubuntu, your app built from 
sources is not under package management by utilities like apt-get.  For 
instance, I am now running orca from the Master development code base 
but the latest stable binary of orca is 3.12.1, this in Trisquel 7.  The 
orca, built from Master, is in a folder within my home directory. This 
way, if I find the latest orca to be unusable, I can run the one from 
the repos (it's in /usr/bin/orca, no harm done.  If I decide I like 
Master, I could package it properly, and install it using dpkg, thus 
letting the system know I'm using it, instead of the stable gnome-orca 
package.



HTH,



Dave  H.



On 09/15/2014 11:33 AM, Glenn wrote:
> I do many tasks from the CLI, like parted and fdisk and the like, and
> installs, using bash or dpkg.