Thank you Bob! This works, now i have emacs, and i can leave vi alone until the next time i have to install something.
Now, here are some more particular details in answer to your questions and advice (and also, in case somebody is doing a search and stumbles across this thread). (1) As to why i had the naquadah lines: when i first installed debian, i could not install emacs. So i did some net research, and i guess went off on a wild tangent based on some bug reports somewhere. But they are commented out now (and didn't quite work anyway, since i had those unmet dependencies). (2) I put in all the lines you recommended, including the optional ones (backports and mozilla). When i did sudo apt-get update i got an error linked to the backports: W: GPG error: http://mozilla.debian.net squeeze-backports Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 85A3D26506C4AE2A However, the command exited with status 0, and it didn't seem to interfere with getting emacs. (I'm assuming that i need to do something with apt-key to fix this problem.) (3) I could not install emacs-el (E: Unable to locate package emacs-el), so i assume that the spelling isn't exactly right. But all the other packages (including the goodies) did install. (4) Finally, as to how i got the /etc/apt/sources.list: I installed from DVD, but did not configure the network at installation time (because i don't have DHCP and i didn't want to hardwire in an ip address [as i'm behind DSL]). So the sources.list was full of dvd lines, but the network lines were commented out, typically saying "Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:". So i just commented out all of the dvd lines, and uncommented all the network lines (http or ftp). And there was no "ftp.us.debian.org" anywhere in the file. Thanks again for your help, which really was a relief, besides being so speedy. dan On 4/18/12, Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> wrote: > Dan Hitt wrote: >> I just installed debian 6.0.4 on a partition on my computer. >> >> I would like to install emacs on it, but so far have been quite >> unsuccessful. >> >> I imagine that something is missing from my /etc/apt/sources.list. > > Yes. You are missing the main archive. > >> My sources.list file is (omitting all comments): >> deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free >> deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib >> deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ squeeze-updates main contrib non-free >> deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ squeeze-updates main contrib > > You do not have http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian there. > >> deb http://emacs.naquadah.org/ stable/ >> deb-src http://emacs.naquadah.org/ stable/ > > I am not familiar with those. Why do you have them? For the moment > humor me and comment those out. Then install the standard set and > install emacs from there. > > You want these: > > deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian squeeze main contrib non-free > deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian squeeze main contrib non-free > > deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian squeeze-updates main contrib non-free > deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian squeeze-updates main contrib > non-free > > deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free > deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free > > And optionally you may want these. I will mention them so that you > have them. But they are definitely optional and not required. > However if you are withing to run Firefox on Squeeze then you > definitely want these added to get the current version. See > http://mozilla.debian.net/ for more information. > > deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports squeeze-backports main > deb http://mozilla.debian.net/ squeeze-backports iceweasel-release > > After editing your /etc/apt/sources.list file run: > > apt-get update > > apt-get install emacs > apt-get install emacs23-common-non-dfsg > > Additionally you might find these optional extras useful: > > apt-get install emacs-el > apt-get install emacs-goodies-el > > Bob > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caophizlnz+knwffo5ycros+0xzmee9rynp30gpkxca2qsz8...@mail.gmail.com
