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Rogério Brito writes:
> I had a small experience today with emacs22, but, unfortunately, I had
> to remove it and put back emacs-snapshot, because emacs22 doesn't
> provide the name "emacs" if installed only with emacs22-gtk and the
> other necessary packages (please, note that I didn't install the package
> named emacs; I tried to keep my installation minimal).
This is probably a bug in update-alternatives (there are many bugs
filed against update-alternatives in the BTS), since I cannot
reproduce that:
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| $ /usr/sbin/update-alternatives --display emacs
| emacs - status is manual.
| link currently points to /usr/bin/emacs-snapshot
| /usr/bin/emacs21 - priority 24
| slave emacs.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/emacs.1emacs21.gz
| /usr/bin/emacs21-x - priority 24
| slave emacs.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/emacs.1emacs21.gz
| /usr/bin/emacs-snapshot - priority 23
| slave emacs.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/emacs.1emacs-snapshot.gz
| /usr/bin/emacs22-gtk - priority 25
| slave emacs.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/emacs.1emacs22.gz
| Current `best' version is /usr/bin/emacs22-gtk.
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This seems to be correct, and the emacs-22 postinst sets up the emacs
alternative. What does `update-alternatives --display emacs' give on
your system? And, just in case, what gives
`ls -L /etc/alternatives/emacs*'?
By the way, you do not need to remove emacs22 to install
emacs-snaphot, they happily co-exist on my system, as you can see.
Cheers,
Sven
