From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rodolfo Medina Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [solved] Re: How to uninstall Emacs? 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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:103655 Archived-At: 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 ? 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