Re: [orca-list] Need your help to check Orca pre version

[Janina Sajka <janina rednote net>]

Christopher:

There's a quick and simple way to check on your Fedora version that has
been present in Fedora forever:

cat /etc/fedora-release

To get your architecture and kernel version, the Usual Linux command is
your friend:

uname -a


Orca screen reader developers writes:
> Alex,
>
>
> Thank you for your generous offer to teach us all how to do this. I pretty
> much think I have the steps down, but if you could outline them, that would
> be fantastic. Also, I have a few questions, see below.
>
>
> I was able with no problems at all to get Master up and working on Ubuntu
> 18.04 both with Gnome, as well as with Mate. I don't think that process
> changes either way, but anyhow...
>
>
> What I'd like to know however is firstly, can you please outline the steps
> for getting Master up and running with Fedora Workstation? I'm so sorry, I
> don't know the version, but I can tell you that it's the very most up to
> date version for PC desktops. I believe it's the AMD64 version. I can look
> it up it absolutely necessary. I just don't recall off the top of my head.
>
>
> I have a system which I've considered deploying it on, but want to be sure
> first I know the process.
>
>
> Also, regarding Ubuntu 18.04, once the source has been downloaded from
> Gitlab, am I correct in assuming that all I have to then do to check for
> Master updates is to cd into my orca directory, then type:
>
>
> git pull
>
>
> Then just do my
>
>
> PYTHON=/usr/bin/python3.6 ./autogen.sh
>
> make
>
> sudo make install
>
>
> or is there a little more to it than this?
>
>
> Chris.
>
>
>
> On 07/06/2018 10:35 AM, Alex ARNAUD wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > We're working hardly to make Orca a better screen reader each day and
> > we're providing a test version called "master".
> >
> > To ensure we've not introduced bug or regression in our latest
> > development we need the help of the community to check if Orca master
> > has less bug than Orca 3.28.2, the current stable version.
> >
> > I'm personally using Orca master but I'm not blind, just low-vision
> > person so I don't use Orca exactly as a blind person.
> >
> > If you're not using Orca master because you don't know how to use it,
> > feel free to answer to this thread to make it possible for us to give
> > you an how to do for your distribution. Please give us the name and
> > version number of your distribution.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Alex.
> > _______________________________________________
> > orca-list mailing list
> > orca-list gnome org
> > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list
> > Orca wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Orca
> > Orca documentation: https://help.gnome.org/users/orca/stable/
> > GNOME Universal Access guide:
> > https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/a11y.html
> > Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org
>
> _______________________________________________
> orca-list mailing list
> orca-list gnome org
> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list
> Orca wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Orca
> Orca documentation: https://help.gnome.org/users/orca/stable/
> GNOME Universal Access guide: https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/a11y.html
> Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org

-- 

Janina Sajka

Linux Foundation Fellow
Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup:       http://a11y.org

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures        http://www.w3.org/wai/apa