Re: [orca-list] not finding braille contraction tables after manual installation

[Peter Rayner <prayner unimelb edu au>]

Jason White writes:
> Do you have liblouis and its header files installed? I know that's obvious, but let's rule it  out to begin 
> with.
Yes, I should have said that running the distribution orca
(/usr/bin/orca -r -s) shows me a list of possible contraction tables.
Peter

> On 2/14/20, 04:34, "orca-list on behalf of Peter Rayner via orca-list" <orca-list-bounces gnome org on 
> behalf of orca-list gnome org> wrote:
>
>    I've manually installed orca on my ubuntu 18.04LTS system. It's in
>    /usr/local/bin.
>    Running /usr/local/bin/orca -r -s
>    gets me the preferences as hoped but when I try to configure braille
>    contraction tables there's nothing showing in the combo box. A debug
>    log also says combo box reports no children.
>    make clean; autogen.southern hemisphere; make; make install
>    doesn't change this. I remember something from a thread a while back
>    on the order of installing liblouis or brltty or something similar.
>    Can someone remind me?
>    thanks in advance
>    Peter
>    
>    
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