Re: [orca-list] Ubiquity + orca

[John G Heim <jheim math wisc edu>]

Well, I wasn't getting that behaviour but the solution Jeremy gave 
appears to work. I was doing this in a Virtualbox virtual machine and 
using the screen capture plus tesseract OCR to read the screen. So all I 
did was click the "Try Ubuntu" button by pressing tab once and then 
enter. Then I pressed alt+f2 to get the window to enter a command and 
typed "ubiquity". Then I started orca with sudo priviledges by pressing 
alt+f2 and typing "sudo orca".
PS: In case you are interested, here are the commands I use to read the 
screen via OCR. They work but you do get pretty garbled text.

export VMNAME=your_vm_name
vboxmanage controlvm $VMNAME screenshotpng "/tmp/${VMNAME}.png"
tesseract "/tmp/${VMNAME}.png" stdout



On 01/02/2018 03:04 PM, Jeremy Lincicome wrote:
> John,
>
> To get the installer to talk, after starting Orca in the live session, 
> press Alt+F2 and type:
>
> sudo orca
>
> This will start a second instance of Orca with root privileges.
>
> You should then be able to go to the desktop and press enter on the 
> install icon, and the installer should talk. I used this method to 
> install Ubuntu in VirtualBox. This also works with real hardware.
>
>
> Jeremy
>
>
> On 01/02/2018 01:35 PM, John G Heim wrote:
> > I meant that I was starting orca with alt+super+s, of course. Not 
> > control+super+s as I said.
> >
> >
> > On 01/02/2018 02:21 PM, John G Heim wrote:
> > > Does Ubuntu still support a talking install? I have the Ubuntu 17.10 
> > > (Artful Aarvark) booted in a virtual machine. I can't get it to talk 
> > > duing the install. I can start orca by pressing control+super+s after 
> > > I click the button that says "Try ubuntu". But I can't get it started 
> > > if I click the install button. Furthermore, if I run ubiquity after 
> > > starting orca, it doesn't talk.
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