Re: stupid emacs question


Subject: Re: stupid emacs question
From: Paul Cézanne (pZ@MacSpeech.com)
Date: Tue Oct 16 2001 - 13:48:42 MDT


At 1:51 PM -0500 10/16/01, Andrew Leahy wrote:
>I don't think you need to do that. You probably just don't have the X
>version of emacs installed. Try 'rpm -qa | grep emacs' and look for
>'emacs-X11'. If it's not there, go to the Yellowdog/RPMS directory on your
>Yellowdog CD and install it with 'rpm -Uvh emacs-X11-20.7-17b.ppc.rpm'.

and...

At 11:56 AM -0700 10/16/01, David Wheeler wrote:
>As distributed with YDL 2.0, Emacs is not compiled with the X Toolkit.
>Furthermore, the 20.7 sources have a bug related to PPC and YDL.

and...

At 1:57 PM -0500 10/16/01, Neill Miller wrote:
>In case anyone else cares, RPMs are available on the yellowdog anonymous ftp server (though I haven't tried them)
>
>ftp://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/Linux/distributions/yellowdog/contrib/RPMS/

the solution is to download the rpms from the ftp site that Neil mentioned and apply them with the command that Andrew used.

Thanks everybody, I have xemacs working now.

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