On Ubuntu, there's a seperate package for the .el files.

sudo apt-get install emacs23-el

Should work.




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>From: Sergey <power.real@gmail.com>
>To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>Sent: Tuesday, September 6, 2011 5:19:43 AM
>Subject: describe-function and sources.
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>Hi all!
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>I have installed precompiled Emacs with apt-get in my Ubuntu box, then I get it's sources manually.
>How can I point emacs to them? I want to be able to view definitions of functions, now it looks like
>"describe-function is an interactive compiled Lisp function."
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