Timeline for Should I update or install emacs and related packages?
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| Mar 29, 2015 at 11:56 | comment | added | user3871 |
BTW, attaching all those screenshots is unnecessary. All you need to do is use tools like apt-cache or aptitude and paste the appropriate lines of output. It will be much easier to digest.
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| Mar 29, 2015 at 11:55 | answer | added | user3871 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 24, 2015 at 14:29 | answer | added | Tyler | timeline score: 4 | |
| Mar 24, 2015 at 13:44 | comment | added | Tim | @Tom it does. Ubuntu software update says the installed version is 24.4-1 (see the list). Before I installed, there is no emacs. I created a deb package from the compiled source, and then dpkg, which I believe let Ubuntu and dpkg knows the installed emacs. | |
| Mar 24, 2015 at 13:37 | comment | added | user295 | Ubuntu knows about the installed files, but not that this custom package replaces the system emacs packages (if you didn't build the package with the information to let the system know) | |
| Mar 24, 2015 at 12:53 | history | edited | Tim | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 24, 2015 at 12:47 | comment | added | Tim |
But I used checkinstall and dpkg instead of make install to install my emacs, so dpkg and ubuntu knows about it. I wonder why Ubuntu software update suggests me another version of emacs, if my installed one is the latest.
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| Mar 24, 2015 at 12:47 | history | edited | Tim | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 24, 2015 at 12:44 | comment | added | wvxvw | If you compiled it on your own, then Ubuntu's package manager doesn't know about it. If you will proceed with the installation from the package manager, it will install a separate Emacs. There's no problem in having more than one Emacs, except for having to share the init file, it's easy to contain each installation to its own code, but both Emacs will be able to use each others Lisp code (if you set them to do that). If you are happy with building Emacs on your own, then, I'd keep on doing that, but if it sounds bothersome, then I'd install one from PPA. | |
| Mar 24, 2015 at 12:25 | history | asked | Tim | CC BY-SA 3.0 |