Howto: Install emacs-snapshot 22.0.5 with gtk2 under Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy)

[Technoviking]

I love emacs, but have had some display problems with the emacs that comes with Breezy. I have built emacs-snapshot debs for Breezy from the Dapper archive. This version has some new features, including gtk2.

Changes:

• 11-Nov-05: Rebuilt from Dapper archive.

1. Get Files:

wget -c http://mikesplanet.net/deb/dictionaries-common_0.62.3ubuntu1~breezy_all.deb
wget -c http://mikesplanet.net/deb/emacs-snapshot-bin-common_20051103-1~breezy_i386.deb
wget -c http://mikesplanet.net/deb/emacs-snapshot-common_20051103-1~breezy_all.deb
wget -c http://mikesplanet.net/deb/emacs-snapshot-el_20051103-1~breezy_all.deb
wget -c http://mikesplanet.net/deb/emacs-snapshot-gtk_20051103-1~breezy_i386.deb

2. Uninstall emacs21 (if needed):

sudo apt-get remove emacs21

3. Install emacsen-common:

sudo apt-get install emacsen-common

4. Install dictionaries-common:

sudo dpkg -i dictionaries-common_0.62.3ubuntu1~breezy_all.deb

5. Install emacs-snapshot:

sudo dpkg -i emacs-snapshot_20051103-1~breezy_i386.deb emacs-snapshot-bin-common_20051103-1~breezy_i386.deb emacs-snapshot-common_20051103-1~breezy_all.deb emacs-snapshot-el_20051103-1~breezy_all.deb emacs-snapshot-gtk_20051103-1~breezy_i386.deb

Let me know if you have any issues,
Mike

[realwhz]

Excellent! Thanks

[majikstreet]

I was unable to install this, but it doesn't matter to me anyway

One issue I ran into was that there was no "emacs-snapshot_20051103-1~breezy_i386.deb" downloaded!

I would also suggest changing your wget commands to:

wget -c http://mikesplanet.net/deb/dictionaries-common_0.62.3ubuntu1~breezy_all.deb http://mikesplanet.net/deb/emacs-snapshot-bin-common_20051103-1~breezy_i386.deb http://mikesplanet.net/deb/emacs-snapshot-common_20051103-1~breezy_all.deb http://mikesplanet.net/deb/emacs-snapshot-el_20051103-1~breezy_all.deb http://mikesplanet.net/deb/emacs-snapshot-gtk_20051103-1~breezy_i386.deb

Anyway, it does not matter to me, as I like vi


EDIT: And guess what? I was about to remove all the files that I downloaded and start over, and of course lucky me, I ran rm -rf * while in my home directory... *DOH* Luckly I caught it before it deleted too much- I dunno how much I deleted though, but I'll live


EDIT#2: I just was able to install it. Aaaaaand guess what? It's GTK2! Looks better than the whatever default is!

[Spudgun]

Worked for me, cheers.

[bored2k]

Mike, your apps need screenshots at the end of the guides !

[kaamos]

Some problems with the filenames, but got it installed. And looks great! Always disliked the way emacs used to look..

[majikstreet]

Mike, your apps need screenshots at the end of the guides !

I agree...


Mike, how do you do this????

[Donovan]

I get to install it and run it but while I install it i get these errors:

Loading 52semantic (source)...
Error while loading 52semantic
Wrote /etc/emacs-snapshot/site-start.d/00debian-vars.elc
Wrote /usr/share/emacs-snapshot/site-lisp/debian-startup.elc

Se encontraron errores al procesar:
 emacs-snapshot_20051103-1~breezy_i386.deb

Last one is obvious since the instructions dont say anything about downloading that .deb. But downloaded it to test (from Mike's Page with wget) and I get even more errors.

Are these warnings normal?

[art]

Mike I am having the following problem. Whenever I start a new file from command line, lets say emacs a.cxx, emacs loads and stays on the splash screen, and it says to do "Ctrl I" to start editing the file. I attach a screenshot. This wasn't the case with the old emacs? Do you know how to make it start at edit mode from the beginning?
Thanks a lot!

[N8K99]

Maybe it was just me but, I just followed teh directions at http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/EmacsCvsAndDebian and installed emacs-snapshot and it's beautiful!! so much better than the old version! Wow! Thanks to who ever made that!