RE: autoup.sh + deselect broke emacs

["Young, Ed" <Ed.Young@echostar.com>]

Thanx for the fast replies. 

I'd like to have two emacsen if possible or one that will fit the bill for
both purposes. The machine I'm working on upgrading is going to be an
experimental Amateur radio packet machine and is somewhat minimalist. (486
dx66 w 8Megs, ~600Megs HD) I want to be able to run emacs from the console
occasionaly and from X normaly. I've never used Xemacs but I doubt it will
run from the console, but I've heard good things about it. Currently, X
isn't working and until I get X working on this machine (a whole nother
thread) I'd like to try it as long as it will coexist with GNU Emacs. 
Any comments or caveats or experiences here? 

My priorities: 
Emacs (of some variety) 
X
AX25Utils. 

I also need to be able to compile and do some code development. 

Thanx, 

Ed

> Subject:	Re: autoup.sh + deselect broke emacs
> 
> "Young, Ed" <Ed.Young@echostar.com> writes:
> 
> > Ok, I'm still confused...
> > 
> > Emacs? Not part of the current distribution? This is alarming. 
> 
> There are now *four* emacsen in hamm: emacs-19.34, emacs-20.2,
> xemacs-19.16, and xemacs-20.4, and you need to choose which you want.
> The "emacs" package is obsolete because of the greater variety
> provided in hamm.  And yes, you do need up upgrade to use the new
> libc6-based programs.
> 
> > 
> > I'm not sure what you mean by "not to worry" since the upgrade has
> broken
> > Emacs and now it is catagorized as "obsolete" meaning it is not part of
> the
> > current distrubution. 
> > 
> > I'm certain that there must be a way to fix emacs in hamm. Is it by
> using
> > Deselect, and just selecting it for upgrade? (a loathsome download
> > nightmare). 
> 
> On a 28.8k modem it doesn't take *that* long, just two or three hours :)
> 
> > 
> > Perhaps I should get a clue on the use of dpkg or apt since it seems
> most on
> > this list avoid deselect in favor of dpkg if only one package is to be
> > installed, emacs in this case. 
> 
> No, I think many debian-users use the apt method *inside* deslect: it
> handles dependency ordering correctly, so you don't need multiple passes
> of install/configure which the vanilla dselect sometimes requires.  But
> dselect will do just fine here.
> 
> 
> 
> Norris
> 
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