From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rusi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [solved] Re: How to uninstall Emacs? Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2015 07:36:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <31494ab9-df9b-4ae8-9b28-5bac98647c57@googlegroups.com> References: <878ue21nkc.fsf@gmail.com> <87fv88q4t5.fsf@debian.uxu> <87sic6stcg.fsf_-_@gmail.com> <20150411125610231765777@bob.proulx.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1428849622 21011 80.91.229.3 (12 Apr 2015 14:40:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2015 14:40:22 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 12 16:40:22 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 1YhJ3d-0007zV-MS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Apr 2015 16:40:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45499 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YhJ3d-0004Hu-4j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Apr 2015 10:40:21 -0400 X-Received: by 10.68.134.66 with SMTP id pi2mr14012047pbb.9.1428849382964; Sun, 12 Apr 2015 07:36:22 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.132.34 with SMTP id or2mr122420igb.17.1428849382925; Sun, 12 Apr 2015 07:36:22 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!l13no4384828iga.0!news-out.google.com!n7ni5742igk.0!nntp.google.com!m20no2915865iga.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=117.195.59.77; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 117.195.59.77 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2015 14:36:22 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:211374 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:103656 Archived-At: 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...]