Re: New to Debian; emacs20 broken after fresh install of Hamm.
Yes, this works!
Thanks for the advice,
Ruud.
Kent West wrote:
>
> 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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