Re: User submitted Install How To

steven> Stephen, steven> You mentioned you would be interested in small Install How-To's, steven> So I am offering one based on my recent install. steven> I'm sure there are errors and misspellings, feel free to correct steven> or ask me to correct. Same to anyone else. steven> User-Contributed Installation How-To: steven> xemacs-21.5.32 on Slackware64 14.0 steven> 11/8/2012 steven> user: Steven Mitchell steven> These are the 17 steps taken to install xemacs-21.5.32.tar.gz steven> for all users, on a slackware64 14.0 installation: 17 steps seems overly complicated. steven> 2. as root, copy the file xemacs-21.5.32.tar.gz from where ever steven> you downloaded it, to /usr/src with a command like this: steven> cp /home/steve/Downloads/xemacs-21.5.32.tar.gz /usr/src/ steven> verify: ls /usr/src steven> and look to see if the file you copied is there. steven> If your distribution of linux doesn't have a /usr/src directory, steven> create it with this command before copying the above file to it: steven> mkdir -p /usr/src I never build xemacs as root and instead just build it as myself. I used to build and install on a server for lots of people to use. This was never a problem, as long as I remembered to make the directories readable/searchable. steven> 6. Choosing command line options for ./configure. steven> There are many command line options you can set. Almost everyone steven> will have steven> at least some options to specify and almost nobody will be able to steven> install steven> XEmacs without specifying some options. Isn't this supposed to work without options? Granted the default installation directory is probably wrong, but xemacs should build and work. Nowadays, all I specify is --prefix, --with-mule, and --with-xft, and the latter two are only because I want mule and xft support. steven> 9. To bootstrap the packaging system, download 2 files: I also never go hunting around for the packages and just grab the xemacs and mule sumo tarballs. If you're new to xemacs, this is much easier. Ray _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta