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Re: How to uninstall Emacs?
From: |
Rodolfo Medina |
Subject: |
Re: How to uninstall Emacs? |
Date: |
Wed, 15 Apr 2015 06:34:59 +0000 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) |
Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> writes:
> Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>> Bob Proulx writes:
>> > 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
>
> Oh! You are running sid. And using the truly global generic
> ftp.debian.org alias for klecker2.snt.utwente.nl. AFAIK that is a
> single machine. That isn't so good.
>
> It would be better to use the http.debian.net redirector service for a
> geographically dynamic redirection. It is relatively new but has been
> proving itself very useful and robust.
Thanks, I'll do so.
> Additionally when running sid there are times when transitions occur
> and dependent packages are removed. It is a best practice for sid
> users to also include testing too. That way during transitions things
> generally continue to be intallable. This is just one of the things
> that person running Sid Unstable is expected to know. Because
> Unstable isn't recommended for people who don't.
>
> I recommend this for you for a generic Sid Unstable system.
>
> deb http://http.debian.net/debian sid main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://http.debian.net/debian sid main contrib non-free
>
> deb http://http.debian.net/debian testing main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://http.debian.net/debian testing main contrib non-free
Thanks. The two last lines relatives to `testing' will be used by the system
only if the first two, relatives to `sid', should fail?
>> To do so, I should now:
>>
>> # aptitude purge emacs24
>> # aptitude install emacs
>>
>> ?
>
> No. Do not purge 'emacs24' as the installation of 'emacs' would
> immediately install 'emacs24' again. That would be silly.
I was referring to what you said:
> 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.
Thanks,
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
- Re: [solved] Re: How to uninstall Emacs?, Bob Proulx, 2015/04/19
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- Re: [solved] Re: How to uninstall Emacs?, Emanuel Berg, 2015/04/19