Sort of solved - see bottom. On Thursday 10 March 2005 23:32, Geoffrey wrote:
Ingo Strauch wrote:
If you say that
rpm -ql xemacs-info
gives you a "package not installed" message I fear I'm out of ideas...
One thing though: the actual "xemacs" package is not installed. These are more like helper packages.
Just a quick suggestion to verify what emacs packages might be installed, try the following:
rpm -qa|grep emacs
-- Until later, Geoffrey
Hi fellas, thanks to Ingo, Johnathan, Charly and Geoffrey for getting involved in my problem. I was going crazy here ... there seem to be so many conflicts and/or miss-leading messages. In .../x86_64 there exists the following files: emacs-21.3-166.x86_64.rpm emacs-auctex-11.14-56.x86_64.rpm emacs-el-21.3-166.x86_64.rpm emacs-info-21.3-166.x86_64.rpm emacs-nox-21.3-166.x86_64.rpm emacs-x11-21.3-166.x86_64.rpm I tried to install the last rpm and I get the message "emacs is needed by emacs-x11-21.3-166" Which file does this refer to? I wish the messages were more precise. So I tried to install the first file and it says "emacs_program is needed" I cannot see that either! And there were those conflicting is/is not installed messages. Thanks to one of your suggestions I managed to find libcanna. (But once again the jargon was confusing: eg how was I supposed to know that libRKC was inside?) After that xemacs and Tex installed straight up and checked out fine. (Still can't install emacs nor emacs-x11, but xemacs should do.) So, I don't have a problem any more. But the worry is that if I need to reformat my disk (did this many times under that other O.S.) I will have a problem finding my way through again. I find it very difficult to cope with conflicting messages like rmp -i saying "already installed" and rpm -q saying "not installed". And messages which give miss-leading clues like requiring a package that is not there (eg emacs-package) and trivia like a newbie is supposed to know that one should drop off the .x86_64 under certain circumstances but not others (and why not drop the version?) Anyway, this last paragraph is meant to express how frustrating I have found the SuSE Linux package to be, and, consequently, how much I appreciate your feed back. I owe you one. Sincere regards, Colin