From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to install several Emacs versions on the same system? Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2015 02:07:29 +0200 Message-ID: <87d1wy16bi.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <87d1wysb0w.fsf@mbork.pl> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1443743953 9185 80.91.229.3 (1 Oct 2015 23:59:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2015 23:59:13 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 02 01:59:04 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 1Zhnkc-0000cI-An for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Oct 2015 01:59:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56699 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zhnkb-00073K-CS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2015 19:59:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43279) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZhnkP-00070f-TW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2015 19:58:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZhnkK-0006FL-Tx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2015 19:58:49 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:49998) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZhnkK-0006FF-N4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2015 19:58:44 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZhnkJ-0000Gj-Oa for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Oct 2015 01:58:43 +0200 Original-Received: from nl106-137-244.student.uu.se ([130.243.137.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 02 Oct 2015 01:58:43 +0200 Original-Received: from embe8573 by nl106-137-244.student.uu.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 02 Oct 2015 01:58:43 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: nl106-137-244.student.uu.se Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:F2ug98Yn7PWdPs0abF80Lv9pxyM= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:107444 Archived-At: Marcin Borkowski writes: > I'm on GNU Emacs 25.0.50.1, but I'd like to have an > older Emacs installed, too. What is the fastest way > to achive that? (I would prefer to compile from > source - I have the Git repository anyway, though > only shallow clone, but I can clone the whole > thing, too.) Generally speaking use your distro's package manager, but as you say you want to compile it from the source, then the answer is, get the source, and compile it. Are you afraid the compilation process will mess up the other version(s)? That shouldn't happen. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573