> MCV> I think the problem is partly that you're trying to > MCV> install emacs19 and emacs20: this will make things unhappy. > MCV> Purge one or the other. Installing the emacs20-el package > MCV> should created those files your lacking. > > I've purged both emacs19 and emacs20 and corisponding -el's > (Since xemacs20 works, I didn't touch it.) > Then --install emacs20, > again, it failed at > "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/debian-startup.el missing" > Then I tried --install emacs20-el, > but this depends on emacs20, so have not been succeed, yet.
Hmm... try --configure emacs20.... I seem to recall trying --configure on both emacs20, emacs20-el and gnus several times, and it all sorted itself out eventually. Inelegant, but there you go... Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/