From: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
To: flebber <flebber.crue@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs 22.1 only starts in terminal
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 21:17:19 +1200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <18029.4895.749338.738976@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1181550577.598064.317760@a26g2000pre.googlegroups.com>
> I recently installed Emacs 22.1 from source on a PclinuxOs 2007
> install. The install went well apparently without errors. However the
> only way I can use emacs is through a konsole or xterm session . I
> also tried to make a menu entry for emacs in the menu editor (I am
> using KDE) , I simply put the command entry as 'emacs' however this
> fails to work at all. Will emacs only work as part of a terminal
> session or is there something else I should do. I am going to try it
> on my Debian(Etch) install later.
You're probably missing some header files, e.g, /usr/include/ncurses.h (on
Ubuntu it's in the package libncurses5-dev). You can check by looking through
config.log in the top directory. Also, when you run configure at the start, a
list of how it will build is given at the end.
--
Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-11 9:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-11 8:29 emacs 22.1 only starts in terminal flebber
2007-06-11 8:33 ` flebber
2007-06-11 9:17 ` Nick Roberts [this message]
2007-06-11 9:21 ` Nick Roberts
[not found] ` <mailman.1917.1181553697.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-06-11 11:06 ` flebber
2007-06-11 11:19 ` flebber
2007-06-11 12:12 ` [Solved}Re: " flebber
2007-06-12 0:07 ` Tim X
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