The apt repositories are not guarranteed to have the latest versions of packages. Remember debian and all derivatives are not rolling distributions.
On Sun, 2 Feb 2020, Mewtamer wrote: > Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2020 08:50:20 > From: Mewtamer <mewta...@gmail.com> > To: Jude DaShiell <jdash...@panix.com>, chrys <ch...@linux-a11y.org>, > debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: [fenrir-screenreader] Re: fenrir installation (fwd) > > I haven't used pip or Fenrir before, but is there a reason to prefer > pip over installing from the apt repositories? > > On 2/2/20, Samuel Thibault <sthiba...@debian.org> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Jude DaShiell, le dim. 02 f?vr. 2020 07:35:50 -0500, a ecrit: > >> > pip3 install fenrir-screenreader and that should work on any linux > >> > distribution. > >> well right, in theory it should. in reality it does place the > >> configuration > >> files at a wrong installation path. i did not figure whats the issue as > >> the same > >> setup.py works perfectly on my arch machine. so the issue seems to be the > >> way > >> how Debian handles non source files in setup.py files with pip3. > > > > Please see with pip3 people then, the debian accessibility team has no > > control on what is happening there. > > > > Samuel > > > > > --
