My problems with emacs 26-1 are discussed at this link : Emacs 26-1 Problems : find-file and neotree
The following link discusses using dnf
to installing a previous version of a package:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/266888/can-i-force-dnf-to-install-an-old-version-of-a-package
I'm a fedora semi-newbie who just did a full install of Fedora 29, that included
dnf install emacs
, which installed emacs 26-1. I would like to revert to
emacs 25-2 (or alternatively any version of emacs 25). Is there a clean
way of (in effect) backing out the emacs 26-1 install and then installing a previous
version of emacs? If so, it would help if I was given the exact bash commands
to use.
Resolution
I just posted an Addendum to the end of my original question at this link:Emacs 26-1 Problems : find-file and neotree
I worked with emacs-gnu-support to resolve most of the problems, so I no longer need to downgrade. I think that the meta posting at Are questions about the OS package-manager on-topic when the package in question is Emacs? raises interesting issues, even though (for me) they are now moot.
dnf builddep emacs
and then cloning Emacs Git repository and building from it. – wvxvw Nov 19 '18 at 5:59