From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What is the best way to get emacs23? Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:14:24 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1225734382 24281 80.91.229.12 (3 Nov 2008 17:46:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 17:46:22 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 03 18:47:23 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Kx3Vq-0005o9-Bh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:46:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38091 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kx3Uj-0007pG-Ce for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Nov 2008 12:45:41 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!feeder.erje.net!85.214.105.209.MISMATCH!news.eternal-september.org!news.motzarella.org!motzarella.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Trace: news.eternal-september.org U2FsdGVkX19uPf2+r0ssSea2X/a7jZp9z76SOb3gwirFkMJSewlztbrTRCJseyMCfWgoKA+Wesce7Kr4IKfUz47yu26GE8X/8yRtmLK5hd0yZyo0AmCe0eFXiqZ7STqsDVEzeC3VYpibQr+BHasT1A== Original-X-Complaints-To: Please send complaints to abuse@motzarella.org with full headers Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 17:14:36 +0000 (UTC) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX18CZW+4LuUq9sZGNLbB1Ygzs7TZN3mV1N0VCEVRUl2oWA== Cancel-Lock: sha1:9yxGkXWzC9G/zioP5bBcKtCkg5E= User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:164060 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:59403 Archived-At: Mauricio writes: > Hi, > > I would like to use emacs23 in Ubuntu 8.10. What > do you think is the best (or safest) way to do that? > > Thanks, > Maurício > > > I dumped the debian emacs because of some issues with info files. This seemed a good moment to move to emacs 23 and I used git to access it. http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=emacs.git It also meant various packages like emacs-goodies were no longer installable but things were easily down loadable. Works well for me : good luck, richard. -- important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday. ~Dennis Gabor, Innovations: Scientific, Technological and Social, 1970