From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs-21.4a.tar Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 08:34:35 -0600 Organization: IHS Message-ID: References: <5d6eced90608302149r4dff3294o6847fe25e0baf07a@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1157035084 6458 80.91.229.2 (31 Aug 2006 14:38:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 14:38:04 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 31 16:38:03 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GInfq-0007QP-V5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:37:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GInfq-0004eO-Gl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 10:37:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GIneu-0004Bb-BC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 10:36:44 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GInes-0004Ap-Sh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 10:36:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GInes-0004Ah-Ht for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 10:36:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GInoW-0001Kl-2X for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 10:46:40 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GIndz-0006ss-LO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:35:48 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.206 ([207.167.42.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:35:47 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.206 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:35:47 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.206 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) In-Reply-To: <5d6eced90608302149r4dff3294o6847fe25e0baf07a@mail.gmail.com> 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:37082 Archived-At: Arun kumar wrote: > I want to install emacs, so i downloaded "emacs-21.4a.tar" from the > ftp site. > > As i am new to this,let me know how should i proceed with to install > this in my solaris box.. For an alternative to compiling Emacs (and many other free or open source software packages) from source on Solaris, consider using pkg-get (http://www.bolthole.com/solaris/pkg-get.html) to get binaries from http://www.blastwave.org/ -- Kevin