Re: [Harry Putnam ] Re: Terminfo and emacs

2002-03-06 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Harry" == Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Harry> I think there are some problems with it, but not really prepared to Harry> give a full analysis. One thing you might consider is that a regular Harry> emacs package from source would have had no problems with the Harry> directory h

Re: [Harry Putnam ] Re: Terminfo and emacs

2002-03-05 Thread Harry Putnam
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If this analysis is correct, there is no bug in emacs (well, > there is nothing emacs21 packages can do to avoid this). Just don't > go removing dirs ;-). I generally put things in /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp, > which takes precedence over pa

Re: [Harry Putnam ] Re: Terminfo and emacs

2002-03-05 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Harry" == Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Harry> Attached is a typscript report of this problem. Harry> The `ls' commands I used didn't come thru in the typescript so I've Harry> gone thru and annotated what appeared in them. Hmmm. I note that the files removed are not emac

Re: dpkg -S [was Re: Terminfo and emacs]

2002-03-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Hans Ekbrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Its pretty clear that I'm using it wrong but I did try to follow the >> example listed there. What is expected at `pattern' > > {foo|bar} means foo OR bar > > ~>dpkg -S emacs21 > > will work, as will > > ~>dpkg --search emacs21 > > or > > ~>dpkg -S /us

Re: Terminfo and emacs

2002-03-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can you expand on this? Which files are missing? As far as I > can see, when I reinstall emacs21, it re-downloads the .deb for me, > and installs it. (a script/log of the failure would be helpful too) I'd have to reruin the insall now to type

Re: Terminfo and emacs

2002-03-02 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Harry" == Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Harry> I see `apt-get --reinstall' is kind of close. But barfs if files are Harry> missing or something. Harry> Rather than piece it togetther with file date and such, I thought to Harry> just reinstall emacs21. But it barfs on the missi

Re: Terminfo and emacs

2002-03-02 Thread Alan Shutko
Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I see `apt-get --reinstall' is kind of close. But barfs if files are > missing or something. Even with `apt-get install --force-yes package' > It barfs if you've scrubbed some of the files it expects to find. Hmmm... I usually just do a dpkg -i on th

dpkg -S [was Re: Terminfo and emacs]

2002-03-02 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 11:07:10AM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: > Is just the ticket I think but my trials with it only get an error > message: > > A usage statement and "Bash --search command not found" with the > command line indicated there: > dpkg {-S|--search} pattern # search package from inst

Re: Terminfo and emacs

2002-03-02 Thread Ionut Georgescu
The man page means that you either use dpkg -S more or dpkg --search more {} has a meaning for the shell. Ionut On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 11:07:10AM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: > message: > > A usage statement and "Bash --search command not found" with the > command line indicated there: > dpk

Re: Terminfo and emacs

2002-03-02 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Emacs is not finding certain include files for X11 and won't compile >> with X11 support. > > Like redhat's -devel programs, most of the include files in Debian are > in lib*-dev packages. For the X libraries, I currently have installed Ahh cool.. Thank

Re: Terminfo and emacs

2002-03-02 Thread Harry Putnam
Matijs van Zuijlen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 02:56:02AM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: >> People have told me the debian package manager is more sophisticated >> yet, and can pull up more detailed info. What do I need to read to get >> on top of those kind of commands? > >

Re: Terminfo and emacs

2002-03-02 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 05:06:02AM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: ... > things working. However I ran into other problems. Emacs is not > finding certain include files for X11 and won't compile with X11 > support. I didn't save the error output since I don't really want to In debian a lot of libs a

Re: Terminfo and emacs

2002-03-02 Thread Nic Ferrier
Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Nic Ferrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > You can fix emacs by using > > > >apt-get install termcap-compat > > > > > > It's about time that emacs supported terminfo but unfortunately there > > is no one with the time to do the work. >

Re: Terminfo and emacs

2002-03-02 Thread Alan Shutko
Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Emacs is not finding certain include files for X11 and won't compile > with X11 support. Like redhat's -devel programs, most of the include files in Debian are in lib*-dev packages. For the X libraries, I currently have installed xaw3dg-dev xlib6g-dev

Re: Terminfo and emacs

2002-03-02 Thread Harry Putnam
Nic Ferrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You can fix emacs by using > >apt-get install termcap-compat > > > It's about time that emacs supported terminfo but unfortunately there > is no one with the time to do the work. Thanks for the usage tips for dpkg. And the above install did get thin

Re: Terminfo and emacs

2002-03-02 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 02:56:02AM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: > People have told me the debian package manager is more sophisticated > yet, and can pull up more detailed info. What do I need to read to get > on top of those kind of commands? I've found http://qref.sourceforge.net/quick/ch-package

Re: Terminfo and emacs

2002-03-02 Thread Nic Ferrier
Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I may have jacked up my terminfo database. > > I built emacs from sources today. A very recent beta of emacs-21. > Something like the rpm commands `rpm -qf ' will tell > exactly what package a file belongs to. Then with that info you can > say r