From: Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to install several Emacs versions on the same system?
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2015 02:07:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d1wy16bi.fsf@debian.uxu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87d1wysb0w.fsf@mbork.pl
Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:
> I'm on GNU Emacs 25.0.50.1, but I'd like to have an
> older Emacs installed, too. What is the fastest way
> to achive that? (I would prefer to compile from
> source - I have the Git repository anyway, though
> only shallow clone, but I can clone the whole
> thing, too.)
Generally speaking use your distro's package manager,
but as you say you want to compile it from the source,
then the answer is, get the source, and compile it.
Are you afraid the compilation process will mess up
the other version(s)? That shouldn't happen.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-02 0:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-01 18:23 How to install several Emacs versions on the same system? Marcin Borkowski
2015-10-01 19:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-01 19:26 ` Kaushal Modi
2015-10-01 20:11 ` Bob Proulx
2015-10-02 0:07 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2015-10-07 14:28 ` Oleh Krehel
2015-10-07 15:08 ` Tassilo Horn
[not found] ` <mailman.54.1444228092.916.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-10-07 15:17 ` J G Miller
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