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orca


Information about the package, orca, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The orca package is designed for, Assistive technology for people with visual impairments.


Package Name:

orca

Summary:

Assistive technology for people with visual impairments

Description:

Orca is a flexible, extensible, and powerful assistive technology for people with visual impairments. Using various combinations of speech synthesis, braille, and magnification, Orca helps provide access to applications and toolkits that support AT-SPI (e.g. the GNOME desktop).

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

2.28.2

Release:

1.el6

Size:

1.7 M

Repository:

base

From Repository:

Licence:

LGPLv2+



Handy Yum Commands for orca


Control the orca package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install orca

This command will install orca on the server.

yum remove orca

This command will un-install orca on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove orca, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y remove orca

This command will un-install orca on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove orca when using the -y flag.

yum update orca

This command will update orca to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove orca, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y update orca

This command will update orca to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove orca when using the -y flag.

yum info orca

This command will show you core information about the orca package.

yum deplist orca

This command will show you the dependencies for orca. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.

yum check-update orca

This command will check if there is an update waiting on orca. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.