Install emacs on Linux

[Robert Bushman]

On Sun, 30 Jun 2002, David A. Sinck wrote:

> \_ for Mandrake 8.1, ithe base rpm should be
> \_ emacs-el-20.7-17mdk.i586.rpm
>
> Err....sure?  Usually (in RH, at least) the -el- is for emacs-lisp
> files which you don't really need as an average user.  My guess is
> that the base package would be emacs-20.7-17mdk.i586.
>
> FWIW, on my rh7.2 system I have:
>
> emacs-20.7-41-i386
> emacs-nox-20.7-41-i386
> emacs-el-20.7-41-i386
> emacs-X11-20.7-41-i386

Blind stab really - there is no just emacs,
and I was pretty sure the source included
everything -X11- needed. I'm guessing that
-leim- would have done it too, but I don't know
what that is. Mark's a friend of mine and
emailed me off channel to say it works after
installing -el-. Have recommended that he
install 21.x from source ultimately, but this
was a good chance to learn about RPMs, and
get running quickly.

  16231 emacs-browse-kill-ring-0.8-1mdk.i586.rpm
5773569 emacs-el-20.7-17mdk.i586.rpm
  72349 emacs-EPL-0.7-1mdk.i586.rpm
   9746 emacs-hachette-1.5-1mdk.i586.rpm
  23112 emacs-htmlize-0.60-2mdk.i586.rpm
1429184 emacs-leim-20.7-17mdk.i586.rpm
  48271 emacs-mode-compile-2.27-1mdk.i586.rpm
  57829 emacs-mpg123-1.24-1mdk.i586.rpm
 993906 emacs-nox-20.7-17mdk.i586.rpm
  24279 emacs-pcomplete-2.4.2-2mdk.i586.rpm
  19394 emacs-php-mode-099-1mdk.i586.rpm
  68972 emacs-tramp-20010615-4mdk.noarch.rpm
1131749 emacs-X11-20.7-17mdk.i586.rpm