On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, Nikhil Nair wrote: > > > [...] > I'm sorry to say that the chooser is currently not accessible. I'm sure > some setup developers have half-baked attempts to decouple the logic from > the chooser in their private sandboxes (I do), but nothing worth even > showing to others, apparently. > > Assuming you have the ability to edit files, as a temporary workaround you > could add the following line to your /etc/setup/installed.db (in > alphabetical order): > > emacs emacs-0-0.tar.bz2 0 > > and re-run setup. It should now "upgrade" the version of emacs it thinks > you have (0-0), effectively installing emacs. > > HTH, > Igor
Thanks, Igor - that workaround performed flawlessly. Am I right in suspecting that, if I were to use this method for another package which had unsatisfied dependencies, setup.exe wouldnt' sort out those dependencies for me? Or would it assume the dependencies had changed since version 0-0, and handle them seamlessly? On a different note, could anyone spare a few minutes to describe exactly how you operate the chooser, as a sighted user? If I can understand what I should be doing with the mouse, I may be able to get my screen reader to emulate that; it has quite a bit of power to simulate clicks, holding the mouse buttons etc., though most blind people don't use them since ordinary keyboard access is so much easier. Applications which need mouse manipulation of that sort are generally considered to be inaccessible, but that doesn't mean you can't get them working if you know what to do. Cheers, Nikhil.
