What to Dl to compile beta

David Kropman writes: If you have xemacs-21.0.60.tar.gz you don't need the "-elc" and "-info" tarballs The "-elc" tarball contains pre-compiled versions of the Emacs Lisp files, but these will be created in the course of building XEmacs from source. The "-info" tarball contains ready-to-use versions of the Info documentation, but these will be created from the .texi sources when you build XEmacs (unless you don't have a working Makeinfo on your system). The easiest thing to do is to untar them into /usr/local/lib/xemacs-packages. The web site is sadly out of date. If you get the xemacs-base, mail-lib, efs, dired, and vm packages you can use XEmacs' new package mechanism to download and install the rest of the packages from within XEmacs. This is a new feature, which needs testing. Alternately you can just download individual -pkg.tar.gz files and extract them to /usr/local/lib/xemacs-packages, or if you want ALL the packages you can download the "SUMO" tarball, which is so-named because it's huge. Also be advised that the current beta version is 21.0-b62, not b60.