From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jeremiah Dodds Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Updating to Emacs 24 Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 19:23:32 -0500 Message-ID: References: <86ehysb91q.fsf@googlemail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1317774224 14162 80.91.229.12 (5 Oct 2011 00:23:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 00:23:44 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 05 02:23:40 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RBFGu-00088D-7M for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2011 02:23:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56836 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RBFGt-00085F-Ey for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2011 20:23:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:32927) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RBFGo-000851-Hb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2011 20:23:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RBFGn-0007OO-DA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2011 20:23:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-bw0-f41.google.com ([209.85.214.41]:45376) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RBFGn-0007OI-6g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2011 20:23:33 -0400 Original-Received: by bkbzs2 with SMTP id zs2so1503036bkb.0 for ; Tue, 04 Oct 2011 17:23:32 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=63+giEIEKWLgPAlOoCsezUbrVoU8bTo903fp8S+cH90=; b=vogff6x0GbAd8e6VoMdgM/4P4KDJw5akUTNhipo4Lcwi7sXVZlVoGUL3boYeNLCk8n wPmt+VMDJY2wifh5QPx7QyyPRferPCuBu1LNUQNjsmO255Dc1JnFS71/6cNDbspk08uS /HmMzhB+fKJZTSaDLo2M4Gz7JAxhiViOhqhJk= Original-Received: by 10.223.18.203 with SMTP id x11mr2651230faa.4.1317774212059; Tue, 04 Oct 2011 17:23:32 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.223.14.6 with HTTP; Tue, 4 Oct 2011 17:23:32 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <86ehysb91q.fsf@googlemail.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.214.41 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:82471 Archived-At: On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 7:01 PM, Thorsten wrote: > Hi List, > I downloaded the Pretest version of Emacs 24, having Emacs 23.1.1 > installed on Ubuntu. Before I mess up my whole configuration, I thought > I rather ask a few (quite basic) questions here: > > 1. do I have to uninstall Emacs 23.1.1 before installing Emacs 24? > If you're going to install emacs 24 system wide, it could be good idea to uninstall it and tell Ubuntu's package manager to ignore it for the time being. If you don't, it *may* get overwritten accidentally. If you want to keep around, you could install 24 under your home directory. > 2. I load most .el files from my .emacs.de, which is in my Dropbox-folder > and therefore accesible from my Linux and my Win 7 machine, and not from the > /usr/share/emacs directories - will this configuration be messed up by > the new installation? It should not. > > 3. should I change from Ubuntu 32 to 64, are there no problems with the > 64bit version? > WRT Ubuntu, I don't know, but I've been running 24 from trunk on a 64 bit machine with no problems for a while now. If you mean something else, could you clarify your question? > 4. I would really like to try a minimal version of ubuntu 64 with stump-wm > and Emacs 24. Does anybody has experience with or even an example > configuration for this combination? I don't, although you could just install a 64 bit server version and work up from there. If you'd like to try a clean minimal GNU/Linux setup, I'd recommend Arch. HTH