Hi all, at university, we need to use Debian for a project. So, I installed it on a laptop to verify its accessibility. However, I found out that Debian wheezy ships with Gnome 3.4.
Since I’ve been told that between Gnome 3.4 and Gnome 3.14 there have been a lot of accessibility enhancements, I’d like to upgrade the Gnome version installed in my Debian. Could you give me any advice on the best way to proceed? I tried adding the Wheezy-backports repository to apt, but after entering in terminal apt-get -t wheezy-backports install gnome-shell or apt-get -t wheezy-backports install task-desktop apt-get me tells me that the packages are up to date. I tried adding the Vinux/Trusty PPA to apt-get, but when entering apt-get update and after that apt-get upgrade Debian informs me that it cannot find packages for Wheezy. I read about apt-pinning, but a lot of people discouraged me to do it to avoid problems with my machine. The last option I considered was installing Gnome after compiling it from source, but that’s an option I’d like to avoid: I would prefer to install already compiled binaries from the package manager. Could you give me any advice, please? I don’t know what to do, but I need to absolutely upgrade Gnome hoping that accessibility has been enhanced, since in my current setup it’s half a disaster! Thanks in advance for your help. Vincenzo.
