Re: [fenrir-screenreader] Re: fenrir installation (fwd)

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com>]

The apt repositories are not guarranteed to have the latest versions of
packages.  Remember debian and all derivatives are not rolling
distributions.

On Sun, 2 Feb 2020, Mewtamer wrote:

> Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2020 08:50:20
> From: Mewtamer <mewtamer@gmail.com>
> To: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com>, chrys <chrys@linux-a11y.org>,
>     debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: [fenrir-screenreader] Re: fenrir installation (fwd)
>
> I haven't used pip or Fenrir before, but is there a reason to prefer
> pip over installing from the apt repositories?
>
> On 2/2/20, Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Jude DaShiell, le dim. 02 f?vr. 2020 07:35:50 -0500, a ecrit:
> >> > pip3 install fenrir-screenreader and that should work on any linux
> >> > distribution.
> >> well right, in theory it should. in reality it does place the
> >> configuration
> >> files at a wrong installation path. i did not figure whats the issue as
> >> the same
> >> setup.py works perfectly on my arch machine. so the issue seems to be the
> >> way
> >> how Debian handles non source files in setup.py files with pip3.
> >
> > Please see with pip3 people then, the debian accessibility team has no
> > control on what is happening there.
> >
> > Samuel
> >
> >
>

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