Re: [orca-list] Pluginsystem for Orca using libpeas

[Linux A11y <chrys linux-a11y org>]

Howdy Patrick,

Sounds like i missed something somewhere. I m currently shopping but will take a look as soon as i stay back 
at home and find some time. I let you know.

Thanks for testing and reporting!

Von meinem iPhone gesendet

> Am 11.06.2021 um 15:20 schrieb Patrick ZAJDA <patrick zajda fr>:
>
> Hello Chrys and all,
>
>
> Since I use Orca with the plugin system, I cannot use Orca mouse functions as joining the mouse cursor to 
> current position nor left/right click, I always have the "unable to get position" message.
>
>
> Is there something I missed?
>
>
> Best regards,
>
>
> Patrick
>
>
> > Le 11/06/2021 à 12:49, chrys a écrit :
> > Howdy,
> >
> > cool, that you get it installed :). let me know if you find any issues in orca with plugin system git.
> > great that is getting tested, thanks!
> >
> > > Am 11.06.21 um 12:39 schrieb Patrick ZAJDA:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > >
> > > Right, I've just done it on Debian Buster.
> > >
> > > I only had to install the backports version of meson after installing all dependencies of libpeas (sudo 
> > > apt build-dep libpeas) and I also installed the python3 versions of libpeas dependencies then I followed 
> > > these instructions: https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/gnome/libpeas.html
> > >
> > >
> > > Now I can run orca with the plugin system.
> > >
> > > It is not the cleanest way to proceed as I overwritten installed binaries by Debian but I have not 
> > > encountered any issue.
> > >
> > >
> > > Hop this could help some other people.
> > >
> > >
> > > Le 10/06/2021 à 18:56, Didier Spaier via orca-list a écrit :
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I would go for: 3. Build libpeas from source.
> > > >
> > > > Make a package for it just took 40 seconds on my laptop.
> > > >
> > > > I'll leave for others to tell you how to do that for Ubuntu.
> > > >
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > Didier
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Le 10/06/2021 à 18:44, Geoff Shang a écrit :
> > > > > On Thu, 10 Jun 2021, chrys wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > if this commit is true, you need at least version 1.26 of libpeas from January 2020.
> > > > >
> > > > > Debian Bullseye (the next release) has libpeas 1.28.
> > > > >
> > > > > Unfortunately, it doesn't appear to be in buster-backports.
> > > > >
> > > > > I looked at the version in Bullseye. It actually has fewer dependencies than the version in Buster, and 
> > > > > many of them are the same version or are covered by packages in Buster.
> > > > >
> > > > > However, it depends on libpython3.9, and as the version of Python in Buster is 3.7.3 and one of the 
> > > > > dependencies for libpython3.9 is libc6 >= 2.29 which is higher than the version in Buster, trying to 
> > > > > pull in libpeas from Bullseye will result in an upgrade of libc6 which will suck in a whole lot of 
> > > > > other packages.
> > > > >
> > > > > As I see it, your choices are:
> > > > >
> > > > > 1.  Upgrade to Bullseye.  Bullseye is currently frozen and is likely to release soon, so this might be 
> > > > > safe enough to do. I'm going to do this on one of my systems for a similar reason - I need Python > 
> > > > > 3.7.  You should read the release notes first though as there may be important changes (you should do 
> > > > > this anyway).
> > > > >
> > > > > 2.  Pull in libpeas from Bullseye anyway and accept all the upgraded packages.  This will result in a 
> > > > > partially upgraded system which is probably not a good idea, especially given that lib6 will be 
> > > > > upgraded.
> > > > >
> > > > > 3.  Build libpeas from source. I have no idea at all how involved this is and it may well be more work 
> > > > > than it's worth, particularly given the dependencies.
> > > > >
> > > > > 4.  Wait for Bullseye to release.
> > > > >
> > > > > HTH,
> > > > > Geoff.
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