Re: installing emacs on debian 6.0.4

2012-04-18 Thread Bob Proulx
Dan Hitt wrote: > (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'

Re: installing emacs on debian 6.0.4

2012-04-18 Thread Dan Hitt
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

Re: installing emacs on debian 6.0.4

2012-04-18 Thread Bob Proulx
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