RE: Basic package question

While this note was awefully nice of me, it had a terrible s/n ratio. Here's my entire message again, this time, hopefully, nothing will splice it: Ah-ha: lib! Find was going a little skitzo on me, so I didn't even see it. . . I have a healthy populated /usr/lib/xemacs and /usr/lib/xemacs-21.0-b37 (I'm only one beta behind). I found out that my playing earlier did in fact get a package installed, so I played some more and found that my problem was that I was unziping the tarballs before running package-admin-add-binary-package . When I ran that on the original tar.gz's, everything installed. This should be made a little clearer in the beta notes and maybe in the FAQ. Now that I've done all that, I still don't have any modes (like c-mode, Java-mode, HTML-mode, etc. . .). What packages do I need for those? Thanks for your help Itay! Terry -----Original Message----- From: "Zow" Terry Brugger [SMTP:zow＠mdbs.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 1998 11:15 AM To: 'Itay Ben-Yaacov' Cc: XEmacs NT (E-mail); 'xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org' Subject: RE: Basic package question Thanks for your help Itay! Terry -----Original Message----- From: Itay Ben-Yaacov [SMTP:pezz＠www-mail.huji.ac.il] well, being a "newbie" myself, i'll try to help: all those empty directories should be very full, so something is wrong. if i am not mistaken, "make install" under cygnus would fail till andy's install script a few betas back, since it would try to install executables without the .exe extension. since it looks like you're trying b30, maybe upgrading a little could help. you are 8 betas in the past :) as for the location of the packages: maybe there is an 'official' method, but after not too many try-and-fails i found that installing under PREFIX/lib/xemacs-21.0-b??/packages (which does not exist) works just fine. hope i've been of some help :) -- Itay Ben-Yaacov