From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ian Barton Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: is emacs in any linux base? Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2012 18:22:16 +0100 Message-ID: <4F831AC8.1040804@wilkesley.net> References: <31397819.1333451892044.JavaMail.root@elwamui-norfolk.atl.sa.earthlink.net> Reply-To: ian@manor-farm.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1333992152 28077 80.91.229.3 (9 Apr 2012 17:22:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2012 17:22:32 +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 Apr 09 19:22:31 2012 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 1SHIIN-0007jo-6a for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Apr 2012 19:22:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39028 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SHIIM-00040H-Hi for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Apr 2012 13:22:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:59938) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SHIIG-000409-MP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Apr 2012 13:22:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SHIIF-0000Y6-0S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Apr 2012 13:22:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mail2.wilkesley.net ([109.74.196.44]:52056 helo=li40-130.members.linode.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SHIIE-0000Xo-RU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Apr 2012 13:22:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.0.183] (unknown [217.146.125.41]) (Authenticated sender: lists@wilkesley.net) by li40-130.members.linode.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 08520357A39 for ; Mon, 9 Apr 2012 18:22:16 +0100 (BST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120406 Thunderbird/11.0.1 In-Reply-To: <31397819.1333451892044.JavaMail.root@elwamui-norfolk.atl.sa.earthlink.net> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 109.74.196.44 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:84399 Archived-At: On 03/04/12 12:18, Susan Cragin wrote: >>> can you point to a official ubunto page that says emacs is in base? > > You guys are so last-distro. > http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/emacs > > And if you want emacs-snapshot and emacs-snapshot-gtk, add the ppa > https://launchpad.net/~cassou/+archive/emacs > > > > I think that emacs-snapshot is deprecated. I filed a bug some time ago pointing out that the snapshot package was considerably older than the one in the main distro. I seem to remember that emacs-snapshot was removed from the main repos. I don't use Ubuntu as a desktop anymore, so can't easily check. Ian.