HI :-) Glyn Millington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Josef Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Now, just in case _some-one_ does read this: > > Josef, > > Alas I cannot answer you question. This is just to suggest that you > might get a response on [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I've got XEmacs 21.4.9 running here. I acheived this by > > 1. Pointing sources list at a stable source archive > > 2. Running apt-get build-dep xemacs21-nomule to get all the packages > required for compiling 21.4.6 (figured it can't be _that_ different > for 21.4.9 ;-) It installed quite a few libraries (mostly ending with -dev) > > 3. Installed 21.4.6 from my cd, checked o the compile options used by the > debian compilers - saved the list as a file. Do I need to make this file into a executable file (like a script?) > > 4. Removed 21.4.6 completely, aptitude will take care of this, I think? > and downloaded source for 21.4.9 and the sumo package from xemacs.org > (mirror actually) > > 5. Built this using the config options described in 3 above, but instead > of make install as the final step used the checkinstall program to > make .deb package Could you please tell me _what_ the correct name for the checkinstall program is, as 'apt-get install checkinstall' tells me there is no package by that name. As you can tell from my questions I don`t really should have laid my hands on Debian, its me who is at fault not the Debian-distro :-) but I have played around with a few distros so far, but I liked Debian still the most, even for a complete dummy like myself. Well slowly I get the box to where I want it to. Thanks for your response :-) > Quite a performance, but the result is very good indeed ;-) > > hth > > Glyn > Josef Oswald [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- registered-Linux-user # 134.818 at http://counter.li.org The box said Windows, NT or better, so I installed Linux :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
