tlug: Beginner Q: rpm's and xemacs

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "Darren" == Darren Cook <darren@example.com> writes:

    Darren> I want to install Xemacs on my Linux system, so on one of
    Darren> the CD's I bought I found xemacs-20.4-1.i386.rpm (in the
    Darren> redhat/contrib/i386 directory).

Go to jail.  Do not pass go.  Do not collect $200.

Blow off the Redhat contrib directory, _especially_ that RPM.  )It's
poison.  The guy who built it was told not to do it the way he did and
it's been nothing but trouble.)  Otherwise you're going to have to
just keep trying random variations on the libs that don't work.
(Binary contribs should not be dynamically linked unless you commit to
keeping them updated and maybe maintian backwards compatibility
versions; there's no guarantee they'll work if the libs change.)

Try the TL version.  You need the TL-J version because Scott left out
Mule in the US version.  No promises on that one because of
libc5/glibc confusion, unfortunately.  It might work.

ftp.pht.co.jp:
/pub/turbolinuxj/2.0/TurboLinux/RPMS/xemacs-20.4-3TL.i386.rpm
/pub/turbolinuxj/2.0/TurboLinux/RPMS/xemacs-el-20.4-3TL.i386.rpm
/pub/turbolinuxj/2.0/TurboLinux/RPMS/xemacs-extras-20.4-3TL.i386.rpm

You probably don't need the xemacs-el package (it's source for the
emacs-lisp libraries).  The extras you probably want, I believe it
contains icons and sounds and stuff.

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