From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix, from userid 65534) id C28A11EF6AF; Mon, 29 Jul 2013 20:52:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: from hurricane.the-brannons.com (unknown [IPv6:2001:470:1:41:a800:ff:fe3e:bc77]) by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 537891EF56E for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2013 20:52:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (unknown [IPv6:2602:4b:af3c:ae00:12bf:48ff:fe7c:5584]) by hurricane.the-brannons.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 51B5F77BDC for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2013 17:52:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Chris Brannon To: speakup@linux-speakup.org Subject: instructions for doing an eyes-free install of chromevox on Linux Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 17:52:37 -0700 Message-ID: <8761vsq36y.fsf@mushroom.PK5001Z> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.2 X-BeenThere: speakup@linux-speakup.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 00:52:39 -0000 It's not directly relevant to Speakup, but I suspect that a lot of the people on this list will be interested. Reposted from the chromevox discussion group: It seems that there is now a very easy way to install ChromeVox under Linux without sighted help. Basically, download the following file: http://the-brannons.com/kgejglhpjiefppelpmljglcjbhoiplfn.json And put it in a particular directory. I'm running chromium, and for me, that directory is /usr/lib/chromium-browser/extensions. If I were running chrome instead, it would be /opt/google/chrome/extensions. I'm running chromium on Gentoo, and I have no idea whether these paths are distro specific. You may also need to create the extensions/ directory. I had to do that. Once the file is copied, just start chromium or chrome, and chromevox *should* start talking! I don't know if this can be used for older versions of chrome / chromium. For what it's worth, chromium 29.0.1547.32 is installed here. In any case, I'm finally able to do an eyes-free install of chromevox under Linux! Thanks to "floppym" for showing me how to do this. -- Chris