Re: Installing Orca from svn under Debian

2008-07-12 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 09:33:51PM +1000, Jason White wrote: > On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 09:18:50PM +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote: > > > Just out of curiosity, why? The svn one includes the latest features, > > and the latest bugs, too. To get work done, it would be useful to be able to > switch bac

Re: Installing Orca from svn under Debian

2008-07-12 Thread Jason White
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 09:18:50PM +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote: > Just out of curiosity, why? The svn one includes the latest features, and the latest bugs, too. To get work done, it would be useful to be able to switch back to a known to be good, packaged version without the extra work of removi

Re: Installing Orca from svn under Debian

2008-07-12 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 07:14:33PM +1000, Jason White wrote: > On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 06:59:31PM +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote: > > > It does, your running a binary, so don't think its related to your > > python path, just install the svn version, I know it goes ahead of > > debian, I have tried it

Re: Installing Orca from svn under Debian

2008-07-12 Thread Jason White
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 06:59:31PM +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote: > It does, your running a binary, so don't think its related to your > python path, just install the svn version, I know it goes ahead of > debian, I have tried it and it also says I believe on the orca > website... I want to be able

Re: Installing Orca from svn under Debian

2008-07-12 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 06:19:17PM +1000, Jason White wrote: > On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 05:52:50PM +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote: > > > It will be the svn ran at gnome start up. confirm this with: orca -v > > when orca is talking in a gnome terminal. > > It's probably following your $PATH. It does,

Re: Installing Orca from svn under Debian

2008-07-12 Thread Jason White
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 05:52:50PM +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote: > It will be the svn ran at gnome start up. confirm this with: orca -v > when orca is talking in a gnome terminal. It's probably following your $PATH. However, the real issue will be the Python path, which is independent of the shel

Re: Installing Orca from svn under Debian

2008-07-12 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 04:17:55PM +1000, Jason White wrote: > While it is possible for both the Debian and svn versions of Orca to be > installed on the same system, the problem is how to control which will be run > when the Gnome environment starts Orca. I don't know whether the first version I

Re: Installing Orca from svn under Debian

2008-07-11 Thread Jason White
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 03:58:35PM +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote: > Where did you here that? I use apt for pretty much everything, but can > use aptitude. > Most things I read refer to apt-get, and aren't they the same pretty > much? > What's the difference? Aptitude uses different (widely regarde

Re: Installing Orca from svn under Debian

2008-07-11 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 11:11:59AM +1000, Jason White wrote: > On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 11:01:30AM +1000, Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson wrote: > > > That's interesting. I did exactly that, but only Orca was removed. The > > only difference is that I used apt-get instead of aptitude. > > I have r

Re: Installing Orca from svn under Debian

2008-07-11 Thread Jason White
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 11:01:30AM +1000, Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson wrote: > That's interesting. I did exactly that, but only Orca was removed. The > only difference is that I used apt-get instead of aptitude. I have read elsewhere that apt-get is deprecated. I don't know whether it will be

Re: Installing Orca from svn under Debian

2008-07-11 Thread Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 07:09:08PM +1000, Jason White wrote: > I have Mario's latest (2.23.4) Debian experimental Orca package installed, but > in order to help with some bugs I may need to install the latest code from > svn. > > If I try to remove gnome-orca, aptitude wants to remove various othe

Re: Installing Orca from svn under Debian

2008-07-11 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. you should be able to set the other gnome accessibility packages to manual. Have you tried the following? Use underline to purge gnome-orca. When you get the list of other packages aptitude wants to remove, use plus to over ride aptitude's decision. That did work for me the last time I t

Re: Installing Orca from svn under Debian

2008-07-11 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 07:09:08PM +1000, Jason White wrote: > If I try to remove gnome-orca, aptitude wants to remove various other > Gnome accessibility-related packages. You could just install at-spi and gail from source, oh and atk, but no oint, see below. > > Is it possible to have two ver

Re: Installing Orca from svn under Debian

2008-07-11 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Jason White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (11/07/2008): > If I try to remove gnome-orca, aptitude wants to remove various other > Gnome accessibility-related packages. Hi, as a general solution (I'm not sure it's the best for this particular problem), you could build a dummy package that would play orca's

Installing Orca from svn under Debian

2008-07-11 Thread Jason White
I have Mario's latest (2.23.4) Debian experimental Orca package installed, but in order to help with some bugs I may need to install the latest code from svn. If I try to remove gnome-orca, aptitude wants to remove various other Gnome accessibility-related packages. Is it possible to have two ver