From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: J G Miller Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to install several Emacs versions on the same system? Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2015 15:17:19 +0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <87d1wysb0w.fsf@mbork.pl> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1444231225 9050 80.91.229.3 (7 Oct 2015 15:20:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2015 15:20:25 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 07 17:20:21 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZjqVs-0001Wb-Hv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Oct 2015 17:20:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58187 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZjqVr-0001JA-UY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Oct 2015 11:20:15 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 25 Injection-Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2015 15:17:19 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="832b4aa7827bf244be1bc635856e2c92"; logging-data="13387"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18bH2sZqcSXV67TBCngXXC4CRHPyv3Gt8E=" User-Agent: Pan/0.139 (Sexual Chocolate; GIT bf56508 git://git.gnome.org/pan2) Cancel-Lock: sha1:JKIpjsUmH+l6P+wTvLo96XAMyfw= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:215258 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:107542 Archived-At: On Wednesday, October 7th, 2015, at 16:28:20h +0200, Oleh Krehel wrote: > This way I always have access to the newest git version with only "make" > (no "make install"). And also to the latest stable version in case the > git version breaks. May I suggest that you have a look at the "stow" utility which allows multiple versions of "locally installed from source" software to be present on a system and allows for very easy removal. Latest version of stow at Under a stow build (using prefix /usr/local) and install (to install-prefix or DESTDIR /usr/local/stow/{package_name} you can then see all your locally installed from source software under /usr/local/stow. You can activate/deactivate which ones appear in the path with the stow/unstow method, or even have multiple versions present if they are have version dependent installation directories and names eg emacs-23, emacs-24 rather than just emacs.