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

[Jude DaShiell]

That message I sent was not intended for arch-general at all, sorry 
about the basic stuff coming up on this list.
On Wed, 16 Nov 2016, Doug 
Newgard wrote:

> Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 19:50:49
> From: Doug Newgard <scimmia at archlinux.info>
> Reply-To: General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general at archlinux.org>
> To: arch-general at archlinux.org
> Subject: Re: [arch-general] espeak ng and keeping packages in the aur up
>     todate.
> 
> 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.
>

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