From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jude DaShiell Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs update on archlinux Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 06:16:08 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <871tjbf4y1.fsf@gnu.org> <87wq12exh4.fsf@gnu.org> <20150424070239.GA1869@tuxteam.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1429870600 4185 80.91.229.3 (24 Apr 2015 10:16:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 10:16:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Tassilo Horn To: tomas@tuxteam.de Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 24 12:16:35 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 1Ylaeq-000887-Cn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2015 12:16:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43969 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ylaep-0000QD-IZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2015 06:16:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52052) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ylaed-0000Pw-Bg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2015 06:16:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YlaeX-0004eQ-S1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2015 06:16:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mailbackend.panix.com ([166.84.1.89]:40846) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YlaeX-0004eM-OS; Fri, 24 Apr 2015 06:16:09 -0400 Original-Received: from panix1.panix.com (panix1.panix.com [166.84.1.1]) by mailbackend.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1877B12898; Fri, 24 Apr 2015 06:16:09 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by panix1.panix.com (Postfix, from userid 20712) id 077E314B9A; Fri, 24 Apr 2015 06:16:09 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by panix1.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04D4A14B5C; Fri, 24 Apr 2015 06:16:09 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20150424070239.GA1869@tuxteam.de> User-Agent: Alpine 2.11 (NEB 23 2013-08-11) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux (Android) X-Received-From: 166.84.1.89 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:103977 Archived-At: I don't know how this happened, but also in /usr/local/bin I found an emacs-24.50 directory tree and deleted it. That was probably one of those archlinux updates in which the packager was nice enough to not overwrite /usr/bin/emacs but I didn't read any post-install notes on the changed situation when it happened. -- Twitter: JudeDaShiell On Fri, 24 Apr 2015, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 01:53:36PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: >> Correct, /usr/bin/emacs --version returns emacs version 24.5-1 with >> copyright date of 2015. I deleted /usr/local/bin/emacs, let's see >> if which can now find the correct binary. > > No need to do that: explicitly invoking /usr/bin/emacs should be > enough. > > OTOH if it's not working... > > Be aware that this local installation of emacs possibly carries a lot > of stuff with it, which will be now typically sitting idle somewhere > in /usr/local/lib, /usr/local/share, and so on. > > If you've got plenty of disk space you can leave that alone, but if > not... > > Be careful when deleting stuff :-) > > regards > - -- tom?s > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAlU56o8ACgkQBcgs9XrR2kap2wCffVwI4Te//dJL819zfIUMRGSK > 9TUAn2J/B+H7ZZat9O1J5pT2KKFqwGW+ > =AJfE > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >