Can universe be enabled from the command line?

[Thilo Schwarz (News)]

Hi Al,

just a quick shot: I think it would be very easy to write a little bash 
script, which uncomment the universe line in source.list. I'm not familar 
with the problems of blind users, but I think, the next problem is how to 
access this script. Or maybe it isn't problem!?

Thilo

Am Donnerstag, 30. März 2006 20:03 schrieb Al Puzzuoli:
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm really glad to see that Orca has made it into the list of available
> packages for Dapper; However, unless I'm missing something, the fact
> that it lives in universe presents yet another one of those
> accessibility paradoxes we always seem to be dealing with: Let us
> assume that as a blind user, I am presented with a machine running a
> fresh install of Dapper.  What's the easiest way to get Orca up and
> running?  It's great that it is available via apt-get, but of course,
> in order to get it, I would already have to have some form of access in
> order to uncomment universe.   This issue is alleviated somewhat by the
> fact that at present, Gnopernicus, Brltty, and OpenSsh-server are
> available from main; However ideally,an end user should have the
> ability to install their screen reader of choice with one or at most
> two, relatively simple  commands.
>
> --Al