Debian Local Install of 22?

Debian Local Install of 22?

[Olwe Bottorff]

How does one go about installing 22 to local home on
Debian Sarge without involving the sysadmin?

Olwe

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Re: Debian Local Install of 22?

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

Olwe Bottorff <galanolwe@yahoo.com> writes:

> How does one go about installing 22 to local home on
> Debian Sarge without involving the sysadmin?

check out the source from the GNU cvs repository,
change into the top-level directory,
type "./configure --prefix ~/local",
type "make bootstrap",
type "make install" (optional).

look at INSTALL.CVS for more info.

this process is not restricted to Debian Sarge.
i use it myself (w/o installing -- instead i do:
"cd ~/bin ; ln -s ~/build/GNU/emacs/src/emacs bloody-emacs"
and use "bloody-emacs").

i used to be afraid of wandering outside the debian package
system, but that fear has passed playing w/ emacs 22.  ymmv.

thi

Re: Debian Local Install of 22?

[David Hansen]

On Wed, 8 Feb 2006 11:55:40 -0800 (PST) Olwe Bottorff wrote:

> How does one go about installing 22 to local home on
> Debian Sarge without involving the sysadmin?

./configure --prefix=$HOME
make bootstrap
make install

and

export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH
export INFOPATH=$HOME/info:$INFOPATH
export MANPATH=$HOME/man:$MANPATH

but your sysadmin may not like

$ du -hs ~/cvs-src/emacs/
217M    /home/dhansen/cvs-src/emacs/

(including the compiled files)

David

Re: Debian Local Install of 22?

[Henrik Enberg]

> but your sysadmin may not like
> 
> $ du -hs ~/cvs-src/emacs/
> 217M    /home/dhansen/cvs-src/emacs/
> 
> (including the compiled files)

the final installed emacs takes 77,6M on my box, so it's not quite that
bad if you delete build files and source.

Re: Debian Local Install of 22?

[Romain Francoise]

Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@glug.org> writes:

> i used to be afraid of wandering outside the debian package
> system, but that fear has passed playing w/ emacs 22.  ymmv.

And for people who haven't yet overcome that fear, Emacs 22 is also
available as a Debian package (in Debian unstable and Ubuntu), see

    <URL: http://pdo.debian.net/unstable/source/emacs-snapshot>

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Re: Debian Local Install of 22?

[leon]

How long it takes to complete the installation?

David Hansen <david.hansen@gmx.net> writes:

 | On Wed, 8 Feb 2006 11:55:40 -0800 (PST) Olwe Bottorff wrote:
 |
 | > How does one go about installing 22 to local home on
 | > Debian Sarge without involving the sysadmin?
 |
 | ./configure --prefix=$HOME
 | make bootstrap
 | make install
 |
 | and
 |
 | export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH
 | export INFOPATH=$HOME/info:$INFOPATH
 | export MANPATH=$HOME/man:$MANPATH
 |
 | but your sysadmin may not like
 |
 | $ du -hs ~/cvs-src/emacs/
 | 217M    /home/dhansen/cvs-src/emacs/
 |
 | (including the compiled files)
 |
 | David

-- 
Leon

Re: Debian Local Install of 22?

[David Hansen]

On Thu, 09 Feb 2006 09:02:04 +0000 leon wrote:

> How long it takes to complete the installation?
>

Some 10 minutes on a not that fast machine.  But you don't
need to care.  Just do your normal work during this time
(and probably use nice -19 make bootstrap if you or someone
else needs the cpu).

David

Re: Debian Local Install of 22?

[David Hansen]

On Thu,  9 Feb 2006 08:40:06 +0100 (CET) Henrik Enberg wrote:

>> but your sysadmin may not like
>> 
>> $ du -hs ~/cvs-src/emacs/
>> 217M    /home/dhansen/cvs-src/emacs/
>> 
>> (including the compiled files)
>
> the final installed emacs takes 77,6M on my box, so it's not quite that
> bad if you delete build files and source.

But you want to update regularly, especially if you are a
good user who uses `report-emacs-bug'.  So removing the
sources is not an option, IMHO.

David