To avoid confusion I want to add that yay itself should not be run as
root.
yay will prompt for a password once it needs elevated privileges.
pacman can be invoked safely with sudo.
On 2024-04-07 21:38, Aaron Liu wrote:
Ey,
yay is just a wrapper for pacman. If running pacman tells you that it
Ey,
yay is just a wrapper for pacman. If running pacman tells you that it
has a permission issue, you should run the commands as root, e.g. by
prefixing them with sudo. All pacman commands should also work on yay as
long as you replace "pacman" with "yay". Generally, in the Arch wiki,
all lin
On Sat, 6 Apr 2024 12:45:54 -0700 (PDT)
Chime Hart wrote:
> Well, 2nd try, as I must have posted to the subscription address
> instead. I am still running Debian SID on my main machine with a
> screen-reader, Speakup, as I am totally blind. Meanwhile, I wanted to
> try a newer screen-reader, call
Thank you David for your prospectives. I tried your pacman commands, but
somehow they didn't work out. In this version they are useing "yay" for
updates. Yesterday we tried alot of console fonts, of which yes it became 135
lines, but Fenrir basicly stopped talking. There was 1 font which increas
On 4/6/24 14:45, Chime Hart wrote:
ell, 2nd try, as I must have posted to the subscription address instead.
I am still running Debian SID on my main machine with a screen-reader,
Speakup, as I am totally blind. Meanwhile, I wanted to try a newer
screen-reader, called Fenrir on a laptop. So, we
