Re: New to Debian; emacs20 broken after fresh install of Hamm.
Several of us on this list had trouble installing emacs20. Someone
mentioned that it should the installation of tm seems to cause problems.
I went and purged tm, then my emacs20 configuration worked.
On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, Ruud Janssen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm new to Debian (not to Linux though; I've used RedHat for some time
> now). I did a fresh FTP install of Hamm yesterday, choosing the "Sci.
> Workstation" profile to avoid/postpone a manual package selection using
> dselect. All went okay, except for the emacs20 package.
>
> It won't get installed (as well as emacs20-el, auctex, psgml and w3-el,
> since they depend on it). During the configuration stage in dselect
> I get screens full of error messages regarding references to free
> variables. Anyone had this problem too? Should I upgrade to a version
> in Slink?
>
> My first impression: Debian does not meet up with its reputation of
> being hard to install or configure. Used to installing RedHat RPM
> packages, I especially liked the post-install configuration scripts
> (answer a few questions and you're ready to go) instead of RedHat's
> pre-defined package configurations.
>
> By adding the install stage in which "task profiles" can be selected,
> the manual package selection using dselect can be avoided because a
> sensible pre-selection of packages has already been made. In this way
> the installation gets about as easy as RedHat's, and dselect simply
> becomes a powerful tool (without an equivalent in RedHat) for
> maintaining the packages instead of the most difficult part of the
> installation. Shouldn't this be mentioned in the install guide?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ruud.
>
>
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