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Re: [solved] Re: How to uninstall Emacs?
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Rodolfo Medina |
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Re: [solved] Re: How to uninstall Emacs? |
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Sun, 12 Apr 2015 11:34:51 +0000 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> writes:
> Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>> Thanks to all who replied. There was really no need to uninstall Emacs from
>> git to taste Emacs from Debian. To do that, as suggested, I did:
>>
>> # aptitude install emacs24
>
> Let me suggest this additionally. Because of ideological differences
> between two of the best free(dom) software organizations the emacs
> documentation is in the non-free section. I prefer not to rehash it
> again because this has been discussed many times before. But you want
> the emacs documentation too.
>
> # aptitude install emacs24-common-non-dfsg
>
> That will install the docs if you have the non-free section included
> in your /etc/apt/sources.list file. Here is an example. You didn't
> say which version you were using so I will guess Jessie by the emacs24
> version.
>
> deb http://http.debian.net/debian jessie main contrib non-free
Thanks: in my sources.list I have the non-free section:
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
> Additionally instead of installing "emacs24" directly it is better to
> install the "emacs" package. That will always depend upon the best
> version available. Previously it was emacs23. In Jessie it is
> emacs24. In this way emacs is automatically upgraded. If only
> emacs24 is installed then the assumption is that you don't want to
> upgrade when emacs25 becomes available.
To do so, I should now:
# aptitude purge emacs24
# aptitude install emacs
? Then, what about the above emacs24-common-non-dfsg package? Will it be also
automatically upgraded to future Emacs versions?
> Also I recommend to install the emacs-lisp source too. The disk space
> isn't a concern these days. The .el files are nice to have in
> addition to the compiled .elc files. And there are some other emacs
> goodies too. Here is a full recommendation.
>
> # aptitude install emacs emacs24-common-non-dfsg emacs24-el emacs-goodies-el
>
> That would be a much more fair comparison of functionalities.
>
>> . Then, to start it,
>>
>> $ emacs24
>>
>> ; whereas, to start Emacs from git,
>>
>> $ emacs
>
> Ah! Yes. That will work. Since emacs24 exists as /usr/bin/emacs24
> and doesn't exist in the emacs from git. Very good.
>
> Bob
Thanks again.
Rodolfo
- How to uninstall Emacs?, Rodolfo Medina, 2015/04/08
- Re: How to uninstall Emacs?, J. David Boyd, 2015/04/08
- Re: How to uninstall Emacs?, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/04/08
- Re: How to uninstall Emacs?, Bob Proulx, 2015/04/08
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- Re: How to uninstall Emacs?, Emanuel Berg, 2015/04/09
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- Re: [solved] Re: How to uninstall Emacs?, Emanuel Berg, 2015/04/13
- Re: [solved] Re: How to uninstall Emacs?, Bob Proulx, 2015/04/16
- Re: [solved] Re: How to uninstall Emacs?, Rodolfo Medina, 2015/04/16
- Re: [solved] Re: How to uninstall Emacs?, Bob Proulx, 2015/04/16
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- Re: [solved] Re: How to uninstall Emacs?, Emanuel Berg, 2015/04/16
- Re: [solved] Re: How to uninstall Emacs?, Rusi, 2015/04/16
- Re: [solved] Re: How to uninstall Emacs?, Bob Proulx, 2015/04/18
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- Re: [solved] Re: How to uninstall Emacs?, Emanuel Berg, 2015/04/19