I was using the material on the archlinux wiki page in arch-linux for the blind and ran into an error. Instruction 5 started the problem in which alsa-utils and espeakup and speakup get copied to the machine. I was told no updates were done and that no servers were configured for pacman when I tried to do that instruction. The thing is, that instruction is in my braille notes from quite a while ago exactly as it appears in the wiki and at the time I installed archlinux using those notes no such problem happened. Has something changed with the remote repos I should know about or is something else going on? ---------------------------------------------------------------- Jude <jdashiel-at-shellworld-dot-net> <http://www.shellworld.net/~jdashiel/nj.html>