Re: emacs 23 & Debian

[Nurullah Akkaya]

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Ben Badgley <mortecanine@peoplepc.com> wrote:

1. Where and how may a person upgrade to version 23 for Debian?

I'm a simple 'go grab a .deb and install it' sort at this point, although am getting better with using the console. So, please avoid saying cvs or git, subversion. Have a friend coming over for the weekend who may better explain that voodoo to me

2. Why did the Debian Emacs release come over as a bit hindered?

Noticed this on the Emacs Wiki threads about Emacs on Debian. It couldn't sort out what was where, or its version. There was some code to attempt correcting it posted as well.

3. And will future Debian releases of Emacs be so?

Hope not on this end.

AFAIK for 23 your only change is to compile it your self but it is really easy.

To build it from source first make sure you have the following packages installed

build-essential
xorg-dev
libgtk2.0-dev
libjpg-dev 
libgif-dev 
libtiff-dev

then checkout latest code using

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.savannah.gnu.org:/sources/emacs co emacs

this will create an emacs directory and put the sources in it.

in order to build it go in to the directory and issue

./configure
make bootstrap
make
make install

that's it.

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