Re: Building 22.1, on Ubuntu

[Dave Pawson]

Thanks Peter.

On 08/09/2007, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@web.de> wrote:
> > Another package I'm missing perhaps?
>
>
(lib)ncurses.

Thanks. A bit of googling led me to
http://webusers.npl.uiuc.edu/~yangrz/Emacs.html

So, for a new Ubuntu install.

$apt-get install libc6-dev g++ libncurses5-dev
$./configure
$./make
$./make install

did it for me.

Now executable... in a window... if you see what I mean?
I'm getting the text based emacs from 10 years ago?
What's happened to my nice 'semi-graphics' emacs please.
source from http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/emacs-22.1.tar.gz

Nearly,


regards
Dave Pawson
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