[arch-general] espeak ng and keeping packages in the aur up todate.

[Doug Newgard]

On Wed, 16 Nov 2016 19:24:58 -0500 (EST)
Jude DaShiell <jdashiel at panix.com> wrote:

> Did you ever download a package from aur before?  If not you can get and 
> set up yaourt on archlinux but some edits have to be done to 
> /etc/pacman.conf and then you need to run two pacman commands to first 
> update your repositories and then install yaourt.  I do it like this:
> 
> edit /etc/pacman.conf as root and add these lines:
> [archlinuxfr]
> SigLevel = Never
> Server = http://repo.archlinux.fr/$arch
> 
> Save the file and exit.
> Next run:
> pacman -Sy yaourt <cr>
> 
> You may install optional dependencies after that.
> Then run:
> yaourt -Syua <enter>
> Finally run:
> yaourt -Ss espeakup|less <enter>
> and you shall hear.
> 
> To check this, run:
> Yaourt -S espeak-ng <enter>
> If you're told espeak and espeak-ng conflict you have espeak on your 
> machine and will be offered the opportunity to remove it if you like.
> 
> The arch-general list most certainly is not the blinux-list.  Hope this 
> helps.
> That -syua command updates everything on the aur repository in addition 
> to all other repositories you have installed.


Please, do NOT recommend using the archlinux.fr repo. It causes problems all of
the time. Also, do NOT recommend skipping over learning how the AUR actually
works. You're just setting people up for future failure.