Install emacs on Linux

[Cap Bateman]

On Sun, 2002-06-30 at 01:16, Mark Moynahan wrote:
> I've just installed linux(Mandrake 8.1) and I'm trying to get emacs 
> installed. Disk 2 of Mandrake 8.1 is in the cdrom and accessible. When I run 
> this command 'rpm -ivh emacs-X11-20.7-17mdk.i586.rpm' I get this error 
> message 'error: failed dependencies: emacs is needed by 
> emacs-X11-20.7-17mdk.i586.rpm'. Any suggestions on how to get Emacs 
> installed would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mark

Mark, I've got Mandrake 8.2, but IIRC this should also work in 8.1. Use
"urpmi emacs*" and it should install all the dependencies. You could
also install it from the Software Manager, which is just a GUI front end
for urpmi.

HTH,
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