Kurt Lieber wrote: > I've always been a vim user, so I've never installed emacs on my machines. > However, I have a need for it now and when I went to install it, discovered > that it has all kinds of x-related dependencies (xfree86-common, xlibs, > libxaw7) > > Does anyone know what the correlation is between text-based emacs and x?
AFAIK there is no text-only Debian package of Emacs. I'm sure one could be built, but there probably hasn't been much demand for it, as the X-enabled version can still run in a console if you want it to. > (this is the emacs20 package from woody -- NOT xemacs21) Is this something > I can safely override (probably not) or work around and still use the debian > package system? On my X-less machines, I just let apt install all the libraries it wanted. I don't know whether Emacs-in-a-console would work without them. Craig
