Re: [solved] Re: How to uninstall Emacs?

[Rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com>]

On Sunday, April 12, 2015 at 5:01:59 PM UTC+5:30, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> Bob Proulx  writes:
> 
> > 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
> 
> Thanks: in my sources.list I have the non-free section:
> 
>         deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable 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.
> 
> To do so, I should now:
> 
>  # aptitude purge emacs24
>  # aptitude install emacs

No need
As of now emacs depends (and so pulls in) emacs24
At some future point it may change that to emacs25 when you can
(if you wish) remove emacs24

[There are some minor niggles about manual and auto installed tho...]