Yes, this works! Thanks for the advice,
Ruud. Kent West wrote: > > 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 > >
