Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 2013-05-22

Chapter 31. GNOME Applications

Orca-3.6.3

Introduction to Orca

Orca enables users with limited or no vision to use the GNOME Desktop and applications effectively. It provides a number of features, including magnification, focus tracking, braille output, automatic screen reading and more.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.2 platform.

Package Information

Orca Dependencies

Required

GTK+-3.6.4, PyGObject-3.4.2 and yelp-xsl-3.6.1

Optional

BRLTTY (required for braille output, must have Pyrex-0.9.9 installed first), liblouis (required for contracted braille) and speech dispatcher (required for speech synthesis)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/orca

Installation of Orca

Install Orca by running the following commands: 

./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user: 

make install

Contents

Installed Program: orca
Installed Libraries: None
Installed Directories: /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/orca, /usr/share/help/*/orca and /usr/share/orca

Short Descriptions

orca

is a GUI menu interface used to access and configure the various functionality parameters provided for users with limited vision.

Last updated on 2013-02-11 18:51:17 +0000