From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nick Roberts Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs 22.1 only starts in terminal Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 21:17:19 +1200 Message-ID: <18029.4895.749338.738976@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> References: <1181550577.598064.317760@a26g2000pre.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1181553474 30383 80.91.229.12 (11 Jun 2007 09:17:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:17:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: flebber Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 11 11:17:52 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Hxg1z-0004py-Vp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:17:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hxg1z-000207-4s for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 05:17:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hxg1k-0001zr-Mw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 05:17:32 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hxg1j-0001ze-Gy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 05:17:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hxg1j-0001zb-Cc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 05:17:31 -0400 Original-Received: from viper.snap.net.nz ([202.37.101.8]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hxg1i-00076F-Ll for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 05:17:31 -0400 Original-Received: from kahikatea.snap.net.nz (120.60.255.123.dynamic.snap.net.nz [123.255.60.120]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id C616B3D91CF; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 21:17:27 +1200 (NZST) Original-Received: by kahikatea.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D6A7B8F9D4; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 21:17:20 +1200 (NZST) Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: <1181550577.598064.317760@a26g2000pre.googlegroups.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.1.50.1 X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:44872 Archived-At: > 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