HOWTO: Install GNU Emacs with antialiasing

[forbmj]

Argh, sorry, I put the wrong line in

I'll change that now.

$tla get -A jerome@debian.org--2005 emacs-snapshot-debian--main

No such version (0)
name: jerome@debian.org--2005
location: http://people.debian.org/~jerome/arc...ian.org--2005/
package-version: emacs-snapshot-debian--main--0


any problem?

[Wallakoala]

This is great, I though about this earlier today!

Building emacs was a breeze, and it seems to be faster now, too!

I removed all my emacs packages before installing, but I don't know if that's neccessary.

You should recommend 'checkinstall' to everyone. It makes me feel much better about my system, knowing that it's easy to just throw something you compile-istalled out again if you screwed up.

I tried using checkinstall on this and it failed....I have no idea why.

[trevorv]

You should recommend 'checkinstall' to everyone.

I added the recommendation, cheers

[trevorv]

any problem?

Sorry, I'm not sure why you're getting that error. Are you sure you ran the first tla command?

If you still get the error, maybe someone else can help.

[Tryke]

So, I followed the tutorial to the letter, but I only get console emacs. How do I run it with the fancy GTK stuff? I can't find an "xemacs" binary anywhere.

[engla]

I tried using checkinstall on this and it failed....I have no idea why.

It will offer to display an error log. You should look at it, if it fails.

If you already have some kind of emacs package installed, it will say 'emacs [the package you built] conflicts with package emacsen-common [or any other emacs package you might have]'

So checkinstall is great to keep your system clean, but you have to clean out old stuff first, and it's far from perfect.

[kaamos]

[*]There we are, that wasn't too bad! To set your font, add something like the following to ~/.Xresources (you may need to restart X before it takes effect).

No need to restart X. This should take care of it

xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources

[VCSkier]

i'm an ultra noob at linux. i removed windows and installed ubuntu about a week ago, w/ no prior experience. i've followed this guide sucessfully (as far as i can tell) till the last step, where i need to locate "~/.Xresources". where is this supposed to be? is it a file or a folder? sorry if i've messed something up, or missed something simple. thanks though for the guide.

[LordBug]

add something like the following to ~/.Xresources

where i need to locate "~/.Xresources"?

No offense, VCSkier, but I would highly recommend reading up on how Linux directory and file schemes work.

~ = your home directory. ('cd ~' will take you to it)
.Xresources = the file that needs edited. the period (.) in front means it will normally be hidden from ls, though ls -a will make it show up.

[VCSkier]

[embarrassed]i was wondering why that period was there... lol. thanks. [/embarrassed]