Re: Why does apt-get want to install emacs20 -SOLVED (sort of)
On 05 Aug 2002, Henrik Enberg wrote:
> Anthony Campbell <ac@acampbell.org.uk> writes:
>
> > On doing an apt-get dist-upgrade today, I found it was trying to install
> > emacs20 although I don't have this at present and don't want it. Why is
> > it doing this and how can I stop it?
>
> It does so due to some wonkiness with the gettext packages. If you can
> spare the bandwith, the easiest way is to just let it install, and then
> get rid of it along with the gettext-el package.
>
> --
> Booting... /vmemacs.el
>
>
I had to purge gettext, gettext-el, i2e, and euro-support (because of
dependencies), before I could avoid the dreaded emacs :(
AC
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