Having fought this battle (and won it!), I agree that this needs
better documentation. You are REALLY close, too.
I also think efs REALLY needs to be included in the base distribution!
1. ftp the latest efs package from
ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/beta/zemacs-21.0/packages/binary-packages/
2. Also get xemacs-base from the same place.
2. cd /usr/local/lib/xemacs/packages
3. gunzip < PATH/efs-?.??.tar.gz | tar xf -
4. gunzip < PATH/xemacs-base-?.??.tar.gz | tar xf -
4. rm PATH/efs-?.??.tar.gz PATH/xemacs-base-?.??.tar.gz
5. Start xemacs
Use Options->Customize->Emacs->Packages to add other packages. Be
aware of you package-path (see install). If you have $HOME/.xemacs,
the packages will be installed there and will be available only to
you. If that directory (and some others in the path) do not exist,
they will make it to $prefix/lib/xemacs-21.0/packages or
$prefix/lib/xemacs/packages where everyone will see them.
Or you can get them into your .xemacs/, try them out, and move them to
a globally accessible location if you choose.
You might want to use Options->Customize->Update Packages to get the
latest releases of the packages you have selected.
I hope this makes sense. This package system is very nice, but has a
few pitfalls for the newbie. It also badly needs an un-install (but
this is well understood and should come to pass).
And call me "honey" again and you're dead meat! :-) It's expected to
break 40 here today, so the heat plea falls on deaf ears.
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman(a)es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634
From: Sebastien Carpe <scarpe(a)atos-group.com>
Date: 11 Aug 1998 13:47:47 +0000
Sender: owner-xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org
BTW, just 1 or 2 question that have been bugging me around for some
days (i'm sure it's been discussed b4, but i couldn't find it in the
mailing list archive) :
(Note i just subscribed the list 3 days ago or so) :
- if i'm not wrong, now XEmacs 21.0 comes in a minimal state, and
people does have to pick all the package they need by themselves. What
i did not get is how this may be done.
What i got is : if you do have efs installed, everything will work
fine .. i only gunzip'ed/untarred the package in the supposed
appropriate place ($prefix/lib/xemacs-21.0)
And .. so now ? What am i supposed to do ? do the same with the
package i want (regarding i'm really not accurate with dependencies
that might be required)
Or is it supposed to pop up in a list somewhere where i can select
what i need ?
NB: i'm behind a firewall with a ftp proxy (not socks, honey, just a
dumb silly unusefull http/ftp proxy), if this matters...
By the way, despite the global amount of disk required regarding the
package i effectively used, i was used to the 'configure --stuff &&
gmake install' dumb process.
Can someone enlighten me about why the 'get the package you want'
fashion was appended to the process (beside the evidence of cleaning
the jungle everyone downloaded while a simple forest was needed).
--
Seb C. (mailto:scarpeļ¼ atos-group.com) | Working for Atos at Lille, France
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