Re: [orca-list] Install Orca Master was: RE: Need help locating a message

[John Covici <covici ccs covici com>]

You forgot to change directories into the orca directory before
issuing the git command.

On Wed, 30 May 2018 23:19:22 -0400,
Christopher Gilland wrote:
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> Nope. That didn’t work. Well, I mean, it worked as far as enabling the community repo, and once I did the 
> apt-get build-dep orca, that also worked, and so did the git clone https://github.com/gnome/orca
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> Note, I was in my home directory when I did this.
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> Now however on the next command:
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> git checkout tag 3_28_0
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> it tells me fatal: there are no such git repositories in any of the parent directories.
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> I did notice in my home directory when doing
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> ls -1
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> there now is a directory I can cd into called orca, but there isn’t anything there remotely close to 
> 3_28_0, nor any other version number of sort.
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> Can you or someone tell me the next step, as again, I’m stuck, apparently. Again, just for recall sake, 
> this is Ubuntu Mate 18.04 LTS.
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> Chris.
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> From: orca-list <orca-list-bounces gnome org> On Behalf Of sonfire11 gmail com
> Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2018 2:01 AM
> To: orca-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: [orca-list] Install Orca Master was: RE: Need help locating a message
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> Hi,
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> I had the wrong source repository. You don’t need to enable the partner/partner source repositories. 
> Instead, only enable the community maintained source repository. Everything else should work since I just 
> tested it.
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> From: orca-list <orca-list-bounces gnome org> On Behalf Of Christopher Gilland
> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2018 8:05 PM
> To: orca-list gnome org
> Subject: [orca-list] Install Orca Master was: RE: Need help locating a message
> Importance: High
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> Andy et al,
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> I’m having a big issue here with this link provided. I was able to go into Software Updater, Settings, 
> Other software tab, and check both the boxes for partners and partners source. I reloaded, hit OK on 
> software updater, opened Terminal
> with Alt+CTRL+T, did my apt-get install git
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> That worked fine, but the next step’s where I’m getting stuck. I’m now doing:
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> sudo apt-get build-dep orca
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> as Andy outlined. When I do so, I’m being told it cannot find any package source with that name of orca.
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> I tried gnome-orca instead, but that didn’t work either.
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> Upon doing
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> orca -v
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> I’m told 3.28.0. No pre, no master, nothing. Just 3.28.0.
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> I have reasons for wanting to install the Master. I can’t continue though with the steps until we figure 
> out why on earth it’s telling me there is no package with that name.
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> This is a freshly new partitioned/formatted system. Ubuntu Mate 18.04 LTS.
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> I’ve literally speaking done ab, suh, lootly nothing! nada! with this system. It’s only been installed all 
> of maybe 45 minutes at time of writing this message from my other Windows 10 machine.
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> Literally the only thing I’ve done aside the above is once I first booted into my installation, I opened 
> Terminal and did:
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> sudo apt-get update
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> sudo apt-get upgrade
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> Note, I didn’t say dist-upgrade
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> Can someone help me out here? What am I missing?
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> Andy’s original message, with the link I’m referencing to above is below.
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> From: orca-list <orca-list-bounces gnome org> On Behalf Of sonfire11 gmail com
> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2018 4:49 PM
> To: orca-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: [orca-list] Need help locating a message
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> Here you go.
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> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/orca-list/2018-May/msg00201.html
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> From: orca-list <orca-list-bounces gnome org> On Behalf Of Christopher Gilland
> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2018 4:34 PM
> To: orca-list gnome org
> Subject: [orca-list] Need help locating a message
> Importance: High
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> Folks,
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> I have Googled like crazy, and have looked through my inbox, checked list archives to the best of my 
> ability, etc, but just cannot for the life of me find this.
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> Recently, a message was posted by Andy B on this list, with the complete how-to guide to install Orca 
> Master (AKA Orca Pre) on Ubuntu Mate 18.04.
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> Can someone please be a kind soul, and send me those steps? As I said, believe me, I’ve looked like crazy, 
> but cannot find the message for some incredibly odd reason. Yes, Andy, I tried the steps you outlined on 
> the phone to find it, but
> even that isn’t working.
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> Thank you.
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> Chris.
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