From: Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [solved] Re: How to uninstall Emacs?
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2015 11:34:51 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lhhx7f6s.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20150411125610231765777@bob.proulx.com
Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> 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
? Then, what about the above emacs24-common-non-dfsg package? Will it be also
automatically upgraded to future Emacs versions?
> 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
Thanks again.
Rodolfo
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Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-08 18:29 How to uninstall Emacs? Rodolfo Medina
2015-04-08 18:30 ` J. David Boyd
2015-04-08 18:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-08 21:15 ` Bob Proulx
2015-04-09 19:54 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2015-04-11 13:11 ` Rodolfo Medina
[not found] ` <mailman.243.1428527741.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-04-09 23:07 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-04-11 13:11 ` [solved] " Rodolfo Medina
2015-04-11 19:05 ` Bob Proulx
2015-04-12 11:34 ` Rodolfo Medina [this message]
2015-04-13 23:03 ` Bob Proulx
2015-04-15 6:34 ` Rodolfo Medina
[not found] ` <mailman.611.1428966213.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-04-13 23:23 ` [solved] " Emanuel Berg
2015-04-15 21:41 ` Bob Proulx
2015-04-16 15:38 ` Rodolfo Medina
2015-04-16 21:16 ` Bob Proulx
[not found] ` <mailman.848.1429218983.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-04-16 22:58 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-04-17 2:46 ` Rusi
2015-04-18 20:39 ` Bob Proulx
[not found] ` <mailman.1049.1429389591.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-04-19 21:42 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-04-19 23:29 ` Bob Proulx
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2015-04-20 1:40 ` Emanuel Berg
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2015-04-16 22:47 ` Emanuel Berg
[not found] ` <mailman.782.1429134342.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-04-16 1:09 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-04-16 3:58 ` Rusi
2015-04-16 22:44 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-04-17 3:00 ` Rusi
2015-04-18 20:05 ` Bob Proulx
[not found] ` <mailman.1047.1429387523.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-04-19 11:59 ` Jim Diamond
2015-04-19 23:35 ` Bob Proulx
2015-04-20 7:46 ` Alexis
[not found] ` <mailman.1136.1429490171.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-04-21 17:53 ` Jim Diamond
2015-04-18 21:08 ` Rodolfo Medina
2015-04-18 22:27 ` Bob Proulx
2015-04-18 22:59 ` Rodolfo Medina
[not found] ` <mailman.504.1428838317.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-04-12 14:36 ` [solved] " Rusi
2015-04-12 17:02 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-04-12 18:50 ` Rodolfo Medina
2015-04-12 16:31 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-04-12 18:53 ` Rodolfo Medina
[not found] ` <mailman.482.1428779144.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-04-12 0:01 ` Emanuel Berg
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