| Re: idlwave xemacs: install by hand? [message #22215] |
Tue, 24 October 2000 00:00 |
dominik
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>>>> > "A" == amacphee <amacphee@my-deja.com> writes:
A> Hi, I have been trying without success to get the xemacs package
A> idlwave working (IDL works fine).
A> My machine is a pc with RH7 linux and cannot be connected to the
A> network. (I have to write files to a cd from another machiine and
A> load them from that.)
A> How do I install it by hand? What files do I need to put where?
A> When I add a directory in xemacs from whence to find the binary,
A> the package doesn't show up in the package list. I guess I must
A> either have the wrong file, or be pointing at the wrong directory.
A> Thanks, Andrew
I would recommend to get the entire XEmacs sumo tarball with all the
packages - this is the easiest way to install. There is a very recent
sumo tarball on the xemacs site. Read the file README.PACKAGES in the
XEmacs docs.
To install a single package manually:
From the XEmacs Info documdentation:
Manual Binary Package Installation
----------------------------------
Pre-compiled, binary packages can be installed in either a system
package directory (this is determined when XEmacs is compiled), or in
a
subdirectory off your `$HOME' directory:
~/.xemacs/packages
XEmacs does not have to be running to install binary packages,
although XEmacs will not know about any newly-installed packages until
you restart XEmacs. Note, however, that installing a newer version of
a package while XEmacs is running could cause strange errors in
XEmacs; it's best to exit XEmacs before upgrading an existing package.
To install binary packages manually:
1. Download the package(s) that you want to install. Each binary
package will typically be a gzip'd tarball.
2. Decide where to install the packages: in the system package
directory, or in `~/.xemacs/packages'. If you want to install
the
packages in the system package directory, make sure you can write
into that directory. If you want to install in your `$HOME'
directory, create the directory, `~/.xemacs/packages'.
3. Next, `cd' to the directory under which you want to install the
package(s).
4. From this directory, uncompress and extract each of the gzip'd
tarballs that you downloaded in step 1. Unix and Cygnus cygwin
users will typically do this using the commands:
gunzip < package.tar.gz | tar xvf -
Above, replace `package.tar.gz' with the filename of the package
that you downloaded in step 1.
Of course, if you use GNU `tar', you could also use:
tar xvzf package.tar.gz
5. That's it. Quit and restart XEmacs to get it to recognize any
new
or changed packages.
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