Hi, Kenny, Darrell, and listers: A few comments on the below ... The stability I reported in my last message began with Gnopernicus 0.9. The current build released in the development tree of Fedora Core is gnopernicus-0.9.12 released on September 29. Kenny Hitt writes: > Hi. > On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 12:40:24PM -0700, Darrell Shandrow wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I need to install Gnopernicus in hopes that it will provide a level of accessibility to a work-related Sun Java accessibility that is better than that I am not currently getting from my existing screen reader. I am in the preparation stage now, but could really use some advice as soon as possible. I'd like to start with the following questions: > > > > 1. > > What is currently the best Linux distro for installation of Gnopernicus? > > Some version of Gnopernicus has made it into most Linux distros. > Slackware 10 and Debian testing or unstable have Gnopernicus 0.8.4. I > didn't use Slackware for long, but Slackware doesn't seem to have a festival > package. Unless you rebuild the gnome-speech package to support another > software synth you install, or build a festival package, you won't get > much from speech and Slackware's Gnopernicus. Debian's Gnopernicus 0.84 > talks right out of the box, but you will need to install Java and build > the java-access-bridge from source to get access to Java Apps. Be > aware, you still might be out of luck with access to the app you need. > Gnopernicus isn't documented very well, and it seems to have stability > issues. I believe the latest release of Gnopernicus is up to 0.99. You > might want to build it to see if it is more stable, or will give you > access to the app you need. > > > 3. > > What is a good place for documentation (tech info is fine but I am not a programmer) on Gnopernicus and its installation? > > 4. > > Is it ultimately necessary to manually build this software? > > > The only docs I know about are on the Gnopernicus web sight. > > http://www.baum.ro/gnopernicus.html > > The version I'm using still can't access the Gnome help system, so the > web sight is the only source for docs. You will probably need to build > the latest version of Gnopernicus from source to get the best results. > > Good luck and please post with your results. > > Hope this helps. > Kenny > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list -- Janina Sajka, Chair Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Phone: +1 202.494.7040 _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list