Re: Emacs on non-X machine
Montreal Wed Apr 14 15:36:19 1999
Noah L. Meyerhans <frodo@ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
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> On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Navindra Umanee wrote:
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> > Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe you can't install Emacs on a
> > Debian system without first install X?! That's quite a showstopper.
> > Is it a bug?
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> Install emacs 20, not 19...version 19 does seem to depend on xlib6g. That
> doesn't make sense if you ask me. Maybe it should suggest it or
> something, because it is compiled with X support, but it's definitely not
> required.
> The depends list for emacs20 doesn't mention anything about
> X: Depends: emacsen-common, liblockfile0, libc6, liblockfile0 (>= 0.1-1),
> libncurse
Hmmm, according to
http://www.debian.org/Packages/stable/editors/emacs20.html emacs20
does depend on xlib which depends on xfree86-common.
-N.
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