From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bob Proulx Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [solved] Re: How to uninstall Emacs? Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2015 13:05:33 -0600 Message-ID: <20150411125610231765777@bob.proulx.com> References: <878ue21nkc.fsf@gmail.com> <87fv88q4t5.fsf@debian.uxu> <87sic6stcg.fsf_-_@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1428779166 25052 80.91.229.3 (11 Apr 2015 19:06:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2015 19:06:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Rodolfo Medina Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 11 21:06:00 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 1Yh0j9-0005mp-Hy for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Apr 2015 21:05:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43600 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yh0j8-0008Q7-Ih for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Apr 2015 15:05:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58847) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yh0ir-0008Pm-RO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Apr 2015 15:05:42 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yh0im-0002Pd-5S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Apr 2015 15:05:41 -0400 Original-Received: from joseki.proulx.com ([216.17.153.58]:52790) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yh0il-0002OA-K2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Apr 2015 15:05:35 -0400 Original-Received: from hysteria.proulx.com (hysteria.proulx.com [192.168.230.119]) by joseki.proulx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC36D2123C; Sat, 11 Apr 2015 13:05:33 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: by hysteria.proulx.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 90C4D2DC41; Sat, 11 Apr 2015 13:05:33 -0600 (MDT) Mail-Followup-To: Rodolfo Medina , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87sic6stcg.fsf_-_@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 216.17.153.58 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:103648 Archived-At: Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Thanks to all who replied. There was really no need to uninstall Emacs from > git to taste Emacs from Debian. To do that, as suggested, I did: > > # aptitude install emacs24 Let me suggest this additionally. Because of ideological differences between two of the best free(dom) software organizations the emacs documentation is in the non-free section. I prefer not to rehash it again because this has been discussed many times before. But you want the emacs documentation too. # aptitude install emacs24-common-non-dfsg That will install the docs if you have the non-free section included in your /etc/apt/sources.list file. Here is an example. You didn't say which version you were using so I will guess Jessie by the emacs24 version. deb http://http.debian.net/debian jessie main contrib non-free Additionally instead of installing "emacs24" directly it is better to install the "emacs" package. That will always depend upon the best version available. Previously it was emacs23. In Jessie it is emacs24. In this way emacs is automatically upgraded. If only emacs24 is installed then the assumption is that you don't want to upgrade when emacs25 becomes available. Also I recommend to install the emacs-lisp source too. The disk space isn't a concern these days. The .el files are nice to have in addition to the compiled .elc files. And there are some other emacs goodies too. Here is a full recommendation. # aptitude install emacs emacs24-common-non-dfsg emacs24-el emacs-goodies-el That would be a much more fair comparison of functionalities. > . Then, to start it, > > $ emacs24 > > ; whereas, to start Emacs from git, > > $ emacs Ah! Yes. That will work. Since emacs24 exists as /usr/bin/emacs24 and doesn't exist in the emacs from git. Very good. Bob