[Hudlug] instructions for setting up orca

Ben Fowler ben.the.mole at gmail.com
Tue Jul 4 09:04:35 BST 2006


On 03/07/06, MICHAEL WEAVER <michaelweaver1 at btinternet.com> wrote:
>     I have pasted below the instructions for setting up Gnome Orca from
> its web site.
> These notes are based on Ubuntu Dapper Drake Flight-6 on a Toshiba Tecra
> M2 laptop.
> Please help us  fill this out based upon your experiences.
> Contents
> 1. Obtain/install the Dapper Drake 6.06 (not Breezy 5.10) OS distribution
> 2. Install Orca: sudo apt-get install gnome-orca
> 3. Configure and run Orca: orca --setup; logout/login; orca
> 4. If you want to build from sources
> 1. sudo apt-get install gnome-devel build-essential automake1.9
> python2.4-dev cvs
> 2. gnome-speech from sources
> 1. cvs co gnome-speech; cd gnome-speech; ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr;
> make; sudo make install
> 2. test-speech
> 3. Orca from sources
> 1. cvs co orca; cd orca; ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr; make; sudo make install
> 5. Gaining access to gui based administration tools
> Obtain/install the Dapper Drake 6.06 (not Breezy 5.10) OS distribution
> Install normally and select the defaults:
> http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/flight6
> Once you've done the install, uncomment the various "universe" lines
> from /etc/apt/sources.list
> followed up a 'sudo apt-get update'.  Then do a full update.
> Install Orca: sudo apt-get install gnome-orca
> Configure and run Orca: orca --setup; logout/login; orca

This is where we got to. We haven't yet done

# orca --setup
[ loogout/ login ]
# orca

You can try it!

Ben



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