From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: flebber Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs 22.1 only starts in terminal Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:19:39 -0000 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1181560779.595669.3440@o11g2000prd.googlegroups.com> References: <1181550577.598064.317760@a26g2000pre.googlegroups.com> <18029.4895.749338.738976@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1181562351 28830 80.91.229.12 (11 Jun 2007 11:45:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:45:51 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 11 13:45:40 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HxiL3-0007GR-O1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 13:45:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HxiL3-0005Lv-6s for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 07:45:37 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!o11g2000prd.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 33 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 220.253.67.169 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1181560780 1700 127.0.0.1 (11 Jun 2007 11:19:40 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:19:40 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070323 PCLinuxOS/2.0.0.4-1pclos2007 (2007) Firefox/2.0.0.4,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: o11g2000prd.googlegroups.com; posting-host=220.253.67.169; posting-account=3JBjHA0AAACEXRiHf9GU3JXLxSfN0qWD Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:149294 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:44882 Archived-At: On Jun 11, 7:21 pm, Nick Roberts wrote: > > You're probably missing some header files, e.g, /usr/include/ncurses.h (on > > Ubuntu it's in the package libncurses5-dev). You can check by looking > > through config.log in the top directory. Also, when you run configure at > > the start, a list of how it will build is given at the end. > > Sorry, I don't mean /usr/include/ncurses.h, of course. I mean X related > headers. You could use Xaw, or gtk packages, but you need the dev variant > for the headers to build (regular variant for libraries is enough to run). > > -- > Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob I found this list of X packages required however, it is based on Woody so it is a little old and not all are available anymore So I installed as many as possible. For a fully featured Emacs, you need the following libraries (thanks to MilesBader): libc6-dev libjpeg62-dev libncurses5-dev libpng-dev libtiff3g-dev libungif4-dev xaw3dg-dev xlibs-dev zlib1g-dev libc6-dev and xlibs-dev included for completeness. This information is all with respect to 'woody' (a distribution of Debian).