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Hello
List, A
few years ago I installed Arch
Linux using the step by step approach. When
this Auto Talking Arch came out
I was curious as to how automatic and easy it might be for a
blind Linux novice.
I couldn’t find any appropriate instructions. The Arch home
page has an audio
tutorial for the basic installation. The Arch Wiki article
also gives the detailed
installation steps. My
second attempt, to install from
the live disk (to a test hard drive), worked. Perhaps the
repositories
are more likely to be available in the middle of a work day
than on a weekend evening.
This
time I was not dropped into a
shell. I had to login with my user name and password.
Unfortunately There
was no speech. I
ran the command:
Systemctl enable espeak.service Note
that the extension ‘.service’
was left out in a suggested fix. I
can now boot, login and run ping
& lynx with Speakup working. I’ll be setting this version
of Arch Linux to
the way I have my original version of Arch Linux. The
Auto Talking Arch installation is
a good idea. It can make for an easier installation to Linux
for the blind. It
would be helpful if there was accompanying instructions to
explain the steps
and prompts. As
it is now, a novice would have
difficulty especially without speak enabled from the start of
login. Two
additional prompts would be
helpful:
Prompt for auto login
Bring up the desktop. The
latter would be more useful for
non Linux users since most of them wouldn’t know how to use
the command line. Thanks
again to those who responded
to my inquiries. Peter
T.
On 8/28/2018 1:34 AM, Jude DaShiell
wrote:
It could be some of the repositories were temporarily inaccessible while you did your install. This AutoTalkingArch isn't intelligent enough to go back and keep on trying to get missing packages. Not even talkingarch does that. You'll probably do well to try the install again and see if you catch the repositories when they're open for the time you need them. -- |