Re: emacs for Red Hat 6.0

[Bob McClure Jr <robertmcclure earthlink net>]

Look for an RPM called emacs-nox-*, then install it instead of
emacs-X11.

And congratulations on your good taste in editors.

On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 09:04:27PM +0000, Tobias Bohlin wrote:
> Howdy!
> 
> Running Red Hat 6.0 on a ppc Macintosh. No X windows. I need to install
> emacs.
> 
> Got the following rpm:s:
> 
> emacs-20.5a-1a.ppc.rpm
> emacs-X11-20.5a
> emacs-el-20.5a-1a.ppc.rpm
> emacs-info-20.5a-1a.ppc.rpm
> emacs-leim-20.5a-1a.ppc.rpm
> emacs-leim_el-20.5a-1a.ppc.rpm
> 
> I put them all in a folder.
> 
> There is a bug involved. emacs-X11... contains the actual program, along
> with X windows related stuff. Therefore I must install emacs-X11.
> Furthermore, I must install with --nodeps option (I was told so). I don't
> know the exact
> procedure.
> 
> I tried (in the folder):
> 
> rpm -ihv --nodeps *
> 
> Does not work. When I execute
> # emacs
> 
> Result: "emacs: error in loading shared libraries: libXaw3d.so.6: cannot
> open shared object file: No such file or directory"
> 
> This is weird. I don't have a rpm in RedHat/RPMS/ called libXaw3d.so.6
> 
> Regards
> 
> Tobias Bohlin
> Programmer

Cheers,
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