Announcing Orca RPMs For FC6

[Janina Sajka]

We invite all users of Fedora Core 6 (FC6) to obtain current builds of
Orca from our RPM repository at the Speakup Modified Fedora Distribution
site. You can retrieve both source and binary rpm packages via ftp,
http, or rsync. But the best way to keep your Orca updated is to use
yum.

To use yum with the Speakup Modified Fedora rpm package repository, you
must first configure your system to access our repository. You will need
do this only once. Become root on your FC6 system and issue the
following command:

rpm -iv http://SpeakupModified.Org/speakupmodified-release.rpm

Thereafter, to update Orca, become root and issue this command:

yum upgrade orca

We have resumed building and publishing Orca rpms because the Orca rpms
being built by Red Hat now require Python 2.5, and that imposes too many
upgrade problems for most users at this time. The Red Hat Orca builds
are part of development work aimed at the forthcoming release of Fedora
Core 7 which will use Python 2.5. However, most users today will, we
believe, prefer to stay with current Fedora releases which will continue
to use Python 2.4 until FC7 is actually released sometime in mid 2007.
Therefore, our Orca rpms will be built with Python 2.4 in order to keep
the task of upgrading Orca simple and straight forward.


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