Several of us on this list had trouble installing emacs20. Someone mentioned that it should the installation of tm seems to cause problems. I went and purged tm, then my emacs20 configuration worked.
On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, Ruud Janssen wrote: > Hi, > > I'm new to Debian (not to Linux though; I've used RedHat for some time > now). I did a fresh FTP install of Hamm yesterday, choosing the "Sci. > Workstation" profile to avoid/postpone a manual package selection using > dselect. All went okay, except for the emacs20 package. > > It won't get installed (as well as emacs20-el, auctex, psgml and w3-el, > since they depend on it). During the configuration stage in dselect > I get screens full of error messages regarding references to free > variables. Anyone had this problem too? Should I upgrade to a version > in Slink? > > My first impression: Debian does not meet up with its reputation of > being hard to install or configure. Used to installing RedHat RPM > packages, I especially liked the post-install configuration scripts > (answer a few questions and you're ready to go) instead of RedHat's > pre-defined package configurations. > > By adding the install stage in which "task profiles" can be selected, > the manual package selection using dselect can be avoided because a > sensible pre-selection of packages has already been made. In this way > the installation gets about as easy as RedHat's, and dselect simply > becomes a powerful tool (without an equivalent in RedHat) for > maintaining the packages instead of the most difficult part of the > installation. Shouldn't this be mentioned in the install guide? > > Thanks, > > Ruud. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
