From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Runemacs.exe and emacs.exe don't seem to run Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:21:32 +0200 Message-ID: <83fwe9x437.fsf@gnu.org> References: <001601cce860$9b215860$d1640920$@net> <20285.39826.996746.959465@rocky.wb5aoh.ampr.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1329466909 5989 80.91.229.3 (17 Feb 2012 08:21:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:21:49 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 17 09:21:48 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RyJ4b-0007m0-7X for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:21:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59473 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RyJ4a-0002mk-7S for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Feb 2012 03:21:44 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:52411) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RyJ4R-0002mT-7H for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Feb 2012 03:21:40 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RyJ4L-0006v7-HP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Feb 2012 03:21:35 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:41602) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RyJ4L-0006ul-At for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Feb 2012 03:21:29 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LZJ0020033XRK00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:21:26 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.124.150.51]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LZJ002RG37PMS50@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:21:26 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <20285.39826.996746.959465@rocky.wb5aoh.ampr.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:83776 Archived-At: > From: Tami > Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:13:06 -0600 > > Can you get around the upgrade problem by just adding .el files? Sorry, but that's a very bad advice. Emacs Lisp files from a newer version will most probably be incompatible with the old Emacs binary. And even if they are compatible, one would need several addition Lips files on which the first ones depend. The OP's problem is most probably caused by incorrect upgrade procedure. In particular, the upgrade should NOT be done by using the bare-bin zip file. Just download the bin distribution, unzip it, update PATH to point to its bin subdirectory and remove the bin subdirectory of the old one, and start using the new one.