Re: [orca-list] Building orca from source on Ubuntu 14.0.4

[Alex ARNAUD <alexarnaud hypra fr>]

For Ubuntu 18.04, you should probably do that:
> sudo apt-get build-dep orca

The orca package on recent Ubuntu is called orca. gnome-orca only exists 
for compatibility reasons.

Best regards,
Alex.

Le 26/05/2018 à 00:34, Andy Borka a écrit :
> Ubuntu-Mate 18.04, orca 3.28.0_3. Step 1 fails with: You must put some 
> URI in the packages.lst source file.
>
>
>
> On 05/25/2018 09:15 AM, Alex ARNAUD wrote:
> > Hello Christian,
> >
> > What is sure is Orca master doesn't work with Ubuntu 14.04, it doesn't 
> > work with 16.04 also.
> >
> > What you could also do is:
> > 0) You shouldn't upgrade Orca without being able to continue to use 
> > your computer. If Orca is broken I wouldn't want you be in a bad 
> > situation due you're relying only on Orca. I advise you to check on a 
> > VM before to do it on your computer.
> >
> > 1) Install orca dependencies with:
> > > sudo apt-get build-dep gnome-orca
> >
> > 2) Obtain the Orca source code
> > > git clone git://git.gnome.org/orca
> >
> > 3) Move on the directory containing the sources
> >
> > 4) List available version on git
> > > git tag
> >
> > 5) And then checkout the tag you want, for example:
> > > git checkout ORCA_3_18_2
> >
> > 6) Compile and build
> > > ./autogen.sh && make && sudo make install
> >
> > On Debian 8 "Jessie" released the 2015-04-26, we're able to update 
> > until Orca 3.24.
> >
> > Let me know if I could help but keep in mind you could completely 
> > break Orca if you try to update it on an old system.
> >
> > Also, you can download directly Orca 3.18 from Ubuntu 16.04: 
> > https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/gnome-orca
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Alex.
> >
> > Le 24/05/2018 à 22:01, Christian Schoepplein a écrit :
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > due to stupid security policies of my employer I have to use Ubuntu
> > > 14.0.4 on my laptop at work with an also very old version of gnome3 :-(.
> > > Because this very old workingenvironment I am thinking about to build
> > > orca and all its dependences from source.
> > >
> > > Has anyone tried this and do I have any chance that this will work?
> > >
> > > Are there any dependences to newer python versions or whatever that will
> > > orca not let work on this old Ubuntu version?
> > >
> > > Ciao and thanks for any hint and help,
> > >
> > >    Schoepp
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