On Fri, 30 Sep 2016, Stefan Monnier wrote:
dist-upgrade doesn't happen automatically. So yes, you can add the
above and then do something like
I appended this to my sources.list:
deb http://debian.csail.mit.edu/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free
and then ran:
# apt-get update
I kept rer
> Can this be adjusted to allow me to install via apt-get this package?:
> https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/emacs23
> My fear is that if I monkey with sources.list I will trigger an unwanted
> dist-upgrade.
dist-upgrade doesn't happen automatically. So yes, you can add the
above and then do som
On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 12:14:54PM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote:
> Can this be adjusted to allow me to install via apt-get this package?:
>
> https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/emacs23
>
> My fear is that if I monkey with sources.list I will trigger an unwanted
> dist-upgrade.
The solution would b
On 2016-09-29 14:57 -0400, Marc Auslander wrote:
> I see what you mean. I must assume that the other packages have
> survived my upgrades from previous versions and are still in my
> package database. Sorry for the misleading post - it shows I don't
> know how aptitude works :-)
"emacs21" "emac
On Thu, 29 Sep 2016, Greg Wooledge wrote:
Whenever I don't find the pacakge I want in Debian's
repository, I typically grab the upstream source code and
build it myself.
Yes, me too. I was able to build 23.4 from source, and this
appeared to solve the choking-on-old-elisp while byte-compilin
I see what you mean. I must assume that the other packages have
survived my upgrades from previous versions and are still in my
package database. Sorry for the misleading post - it shows I don't
know how aptitude works :-)
On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 01:28:59PM -0400, Marc Auslander wrote:
> I'm running Jessie with the standard repositories and emacs from 21 on
> are available. Have you looked?
I see emacs24 and xemacs21 in jessie. Nothing in between. I don't
fully understand the differences between emacs and xemacs;
I'm running Jessie with the standard repositories and emacs from 21 on
are available. Have you looked?
I have a need for an emacs older -- in terms of major version
number -- than the ver. 24.4.1 currently onboard my i686 Jessie
system. I suspect anything of ver. 23.n.n vintage would suit my
purpose, which is to avoid ver 24's fussiness about older elisp
code in a -- non-Debian -- package I am n
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