best package manager for screenreaders?

[Jude DaShiell]

It'll probably work better with gnome-terminal than xterm.On Sat, 10 Dec 
2011, Eric Oyen wrote:

> I was using a full version of Ubuntu (11.10) to complete the install. it seemed to work almost as well as vinux in most respects, but there were still missing areas. the accessibility menu had stuff for seeing and hearing and a few things for mouse and keyboard, but nothing for blindness (I had to run orca manually). 
> 
> I found aptitude a little hard to navigate an xterm.  some commands were not being relayed into the term (they were being intercepted by the xterm frame). I haven't tried out emacsspeak yet and am interested in using a CLI environment as a management interface. 
> 
> with Ubuntu, the experience wasn't necessaryly all that bad, just a few areas needing some attention.
> 
> -eric
> 
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> 
> On Dec 10, 2011, at 11:46 AM, Burt Henry wrote:
> 
> > which vinux version? Synaptic is the easiest full featured package manager for GUI use, but for most things it is much easier and faster to install from the command line, a terminal or console using commands like
> > sudo apt-get install packagename
> > if you have a package down-loaded use
> > sudo dpkg -i packagename
> > there are about 1 dozen commands I use frequently between apt and dpkg and another tool you can download called gdebi
> > sudo apt-get install gdebi
> > aptitude is also good uses very similar commands to apt. GUI aptitude is something I've never tried/probably not accessibly nice as you are indicating.
> > Synaptic takes a few sessions of getting used to, and takes a few seconds to wip orca in to saying things, or maybe lags a couple of seconds itself when using first letters to navigate in a list for instance.
> > Gotta run, but CLI is a time saver for most things.
> > 
> > 
> > On 12/10/2011 05:12 AM, Eric Oyen wrote:
> >> I am trying to figure out which package manager is best using orca. so far, my experience with "software center" has been lack luster at best. and aptitude has some refresh problems that make using a screen reader a real pain.
> >> 
> >> anyone have a package manager that will allow listing of packages (by type or relevance) without all the clumsiness?
> >> 
> >> I just spent 5 hours finalizing an installation. the new gnome desktop works ok, but it lacks some of the functionality that was in the older gnome 2.x (such easier to find menus, etc.).
> >> 
> >> I am wondering if the unity packages have something to do with this.
> >> 
> >> also, I tried to get synaptic package manager to work and it quits on starting. looks like something is missing there.
> >> 
> >> -eric
> >> 
> >> 
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