Hi Luke: Thanks very much for setting up the repository! I was thinking of trying something like this myself to make Orca-svn available in the deb format.
Again, thanks very much for this. Doug Luke Yelavich wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all > I'm proud to announce a repository of packages for Ubuntu, containing various > accessibility related packages for use with ubuntu hardy. These packages are > backports of newer versions that are currently in Ubuntu Intrepid, which is > the current development release, and will be released in October. > > The packages you will currently find in this repository are the following: > * accerciser > * atk > * at-spi > * brltty > * espeak > * gail > * gnome-orca-devel (Development releases of Orca for gnome 2.23) > * gnome-orca-stable (Stable releases of orca for gnome 2.22) > * gnome-orca-svn (Currently not yet up to date with the latest svn code. This > shall be addressed shortly) > * gnome-speech > > Speech-dispatcher 0.6.7rc1 packages should be available in the coming days. > > A note about the orca packages. You can only have one installed at a time. > This is because it is quite difficult to have more than one version of orca > on the system at any one time, however it does allow you to easily switch > from one to the other to the other. So for example, if you use > gnome-orca-svn, and have problems, you can install gnome-orca-devel, and > gnome-orca-svn will be removed. If you then have a problem with > gnome-orca-devel, you can install gnome-orca-stable, and gnome-orca-devel > will be removed. Same with going the other direction, gnome-orca-stable to > gnome-orca-svn for example. > > The gnome-speech and espeak packages have also had things changed somewhat to > work with pulseaudio differently. As of espeak 1.37, the espeak build process > and source code has support for using pulseaudio as a backend, as well as > portaudio. When attempting to use gnome-speech with espeak, if you are > running pulseaudio, the pulseaudio backend of espeak will be used. if you are > not running pulseaudio, espeak will work via portaudio as normal. I've set > things up this way to get some user testing with the espeak pulseaudio > backend. if tests prove favourable, I will look at making this the default > for Ubuntu Intrepid. Note that this has no affect on using other speech > synthesizers with gnome-speech. > > to access the repository, add the following line to your > /etc/apt/sources.list. > > deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/accessibility-dev/ubuntu hardy main > > Please note that you will be asked if you want to install these packages from > an unauthenticated repository, so you will have to say yes twice when > installing using apt-get on the command-line for example. > > if you have any problems with these packages including installing, upgrading, > removing etc, please let me know so I can fix things up as soon as possible. > > I hope you will find these packages useful. > > Luke Yelavich > Ubuntu Accessibility Developer > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFIfgN7jVefwtBjIM4RAqKFAKCVmR9xU3bQVR4O3gTRA12E4c5WYACfcWpH > RC0TVjfJi4BnC3lHkXFZLZQ= > =q8FL > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
