Re: Building 22.1, on Ubuntu

[Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null>]

Dave, just a very short point which I think may make your life a lot
easier.

From your response to what I wrote, it seems to me that the real problem
you had was just not being familiar with the new distro and its package
management. 

In this day of advanced package management and readily available packages,
combined with distros like Ubuntu which work hard at eliminating the need
for most people to get 'down 'n dirty', it is possibly even more important
to become familiar with the OS than anything else. 

All your issues with available emacs22 deb packages, problems of
compilation, differences in how root and X interact etc are all due to
distro specific differences. 

I get the impression you are possibly trying to make ubuntu feel like
fedora or what you are use to - while I can fully understand this, its
really like trying to put a square peg in a round whole. 

I would forget about learning about configure, make and building/installing
sources. Instead, read about ubuntu, visit ubuntu forums and get to know
your OS. From what you have written, I suspect you are the sort of user who
just wants the power and don't want to get down to the low level
stuff. This is fine and why ubuntu was put together. Let others do the low
level stuff and concentrate on making the most from the (by all reports)
excellent work of the Ubuntu team in liberating users form having to get
down to the bare metal. If you ever want to get to the bare metal, you can
always switch to a distro like Gentoo.

good luck

Tim

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